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ID: 7001889
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001889
Record Type:
administrative
Ballarat (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 33 46 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -37.5627
decimal degrees
Long: 143 51 45 E
degrees minutes
Long: 143.8626
decimal degrees
Note:
Largest gold reserves in Australia were discovered here in 1851; was site of Eureka Stockade, a gold-miners rebellion of 1854; site of school of mines & gold museum; is major center of wool-producing district.
Names:
Ballarat
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Ballaarat
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Australia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Victoria
(state) (
P
)
................
Ballarat
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1851
city (
C
)
gold town (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ballaarat..........
[
VP
]
....................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
55
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Ballarat..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
55
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
20
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
110
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
55
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1557125
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
20
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
110
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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