Ballarat is a city in regional Victoria, Australia, approximately 120 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, with a population of 84,000 people. The city lies at 441 metres (1,447 feet) above sea level and covers an area of approximately 740 square kilometres. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Nickname: Garden State Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Governor Premier Const. ... The City of Melbournes coat of arms The central business district of Melbourne, viewed from the north Alternate meanings: Melbourne (disambiguation) Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 52,117 in the Central...

The site of the city was originally a stock station established by William Cross Yuille and Henry Anderson in 1838 and named Ballaarat, which was derived from aboriginal words which mean camping place. My name is Slade Yuille of Melbourne Victoria Australia the decendent of William Cross Yuille the Founder and First White Settler and named Ballarat. ... 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

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It was founded in the early 1850s when gold was discovered there, and, with a huge influx of population and wealth, was for a time Victoria's largest city. The legacy of the wealth generated is still visible in a large number of fine stone buildings in and around the city, especially in the Lydiard Street area which contains some of Victoria's finest examples of Victorian era buildings many of which are classified by the National Trust of Australia. Download high resolution version (1596x1120, 345 KB)Ballarat Hospital, Ballarat Victoria File links The following pages link to this file: Ballarat ... Download high resolution version (1596x1120, 345 KB)Ballarat Hospital, Ballarat Victoria File links The following pages link to this file: Ballarat ... Ballarat Base Hospital The Ballarat Base Hospital is a hospital located in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. ... Events and Trends Technology Production of steel revolutionised by invention of the Bessemer process Benjamin Silliman fractionates petroleum by distillation for the first time First transatlantic telegraph cable laid First safety elevator installed by Elisha Otis Science Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, putting forward the theory of evolution... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... The National Trust of Australia is a community-based, non-government organisation, committed to promoting and conserving Australias indigenous, natural and historic heritage through its advocacy work and its custodianship of heritage places and objects. ...

Ballarat is notable as the site for Australia's only armed civil uprising, the Eureka Stockade which took place in 1854. The site contains a historical park and a memorial to commemorate the event. The Eureka Flag The Eureka Stockade was a miners revolt in 1854 in Victoria, Australia against the officials supervising the gold-mining region of Ballarat due to many reasons, including heavily priced mining items and the expense of a digging license. ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Today, Ballarat's major industries include tourism, food products, brick and tile manufacture, and information technology services. A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Beaches make popular tourist resorts Beaches make popular tourist resorts Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ...

Media

Residents have their own independent local newspapers, the Courier, and the Ballarat News. Local radio stations are The Voice and Power FM. Ballarat has its own television broadcasting facilities which provide regional television for most of the eureka district. WIN, PRIME, and SCN license Nine Network, iSeven, and Network TEN content respectively and maintain a similar schedule but with local demographic commercials and local/regional news. This article discusses delivery couriers; for the font see Courier (font). ... The Voice could be: A UK Newspaper The Voice Magazine A DC Cosmic entity The Voice (Norway) A story starring The Shadow A newspaper for the Winnipeg Labour Party Irelands winning song at the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 A reference to Mariah Carey, as in The Return of The... 103. ...

Ballarat looking over Lake Wendouree; in the distance is Mount Buninyong.

my own picture File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Lake Wendouree is an artificially created and maintained shallow urban lake in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. ... Mount Buninyong (aboriginal for man lying on his back with his knee raised. ...

Climate

Ballarat experiences a temperate climate with four seasons. Because of its elevation, at 450 metres above sea level, mean monthly temperatures tend to be on average 2-3 degrees below those for Melbourne. The mean daily maximum temperature for January is 24.9° Celsius, while for July it is 10°C . The mean annual rainfall is 705 mm, with August being the wettest month (77 mm). There are an average of 198 rain-free days per year. In winter, snow occasionally falls on nearby Mount Buninyong, and in very cold winders, has been known to fall in the city centre. A fresh snowfall in Colorados (USA) high forests. ... Mount Buninyong (aboriginal for man lying on his back with his knee raised. ...

Famous sons, daughters, and residents

• Henry Bolte, Premier of Victoria 1955-72
• Steve Bracks, Premier of Victoria, 1999-present
• Henry Daglish, Premier of Western Australia, 1904-05
• George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, 2001-present
• Frank Fenner, virologist
• David Fleay (b. 1907) - naturalist, and first breeder of the Platypus
• Leslie Morshead, regarded as one of Australia's two greatest generals
• Maxine Klibingaitis, Australian actress
• James Scullin, Prime Minister of Australia, 1930-31
• Kimberley Davies - actor, appeared in Neighbours
• Henry Sutton (1856 - 1914) - designed "telephane" (sic!) in 1887, an important precursor of the television
• Tony_Lockett, Australian_Football_League Footballer and holder of the all-time goalkicking record
• Steve Moneghetti, former olympic marathon runner

Hon Sir Henry Bolte Sir Henry Edward Bolte (20 May 1908 - 4 January 1990), Australian politician, was the longest serving Premier of the state of Victoria. ... Steve Bracks Stephen Phillip Bracks (born October 15, 1954), Australian politician, has been Premier of Victoria since 1999. ... Henry Daglish, from the Western Australian Government Photographer Collection The Hon. ... Motto: Cygnis Insignis (Distinguished by its swans) Nickname: Wildflower State Other Australian states and territories Capital Perth Government Governor Premier Const. ... George Cardinal Pell with Pope John Paul II The Most Reverend Dr George Cardinal Pell (born 8 June 1941), Australian clergyman, has been the Roman Catholic archbishop of Sydney since March 2001 and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church since October 2003. ... Dr Frank Fenner (born 1914) is an Australian scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. ... David Howells Fleay (6 January 1907 Ballarat, Victoria _ 7 August 1993) was an Australian naturalist who pioneered the captive breeding of endangered species, and was the first person to captive breed the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). ... Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as a number of distinct scientific disciplines. ... Binomial name Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799) The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a small, half-aquatic mammal endemic to the eastern part of Australia, and one of the four extant monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young (the other three are echidnas). ... General Leslie James Morshead (18 September 1889 - 26 September 1959) was an Australian soldier with a distinguished career in both world wars. ... Maxine Klibingaitis (born May 17, 1964 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian actress. ... Rt Hon James Scullin James Henry Scullin (September 18, 1876 - January 28, 1953), Australian politician and ninth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in the small town of Trawalla, in western Victoria, the son of a railway worker of Irish descent. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Neighbours is a long-running Australian television soap opera, running daily episodes of 25 minutes, time excluding commercials. ... Tony Lockett (born in Ballarat on March 9, 1966) is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of Australian Rules Football. ... AFL is a three-letter acronym that stands for: American Federation of Labor, see also AFL-CIO American Football League Arena Football League Australian Football League This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Steve Moneghetti was born in Australia on the 26th october 1962 in the town of Ballarat, Victoria. ... The Summer Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event held every four years, organised by the International Olympic Committee. ... Although marathon sometimes refers to any athletic event requiring great endurance, more specifically it refers to a long-distance road running event of 42,195 m (26 miles and 385 yards). ...

External links

• Ballarat Tourism website
• Ballarat Historical Society
• Ballarat CityGuide
• Local Council
• Residents Portal

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