DESTINATION: Clunes

Clunes

The site of Victoria's first registered gold strike; Clunes is located 36km north of Ballarat. Extinct volcanoes surround the historic town, providing an interesting view.


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The Town Hall and Court House give a sense of Clunes' influential past. Several buildings are classified by the National Trust. The Bottle Museum, located on Talbot Rd, boasts the largest collection of bottles in the Southern Hemisphere; it is also home to the information centre and tearooms. The Creek Walk takes visitors out to Port Phillip Mine, which crushed more than 1.3 million tons of quartz yielding 16 tons of gold.

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Historic Township of Clunes, Victoria
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The historic town of Talbot is 18km NW and has many fine old Victorian buildings dating from the 1860s and 1870s.

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Region: Goldfields

Panning for Gold at Castlemaine, Victoria
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Victorian Goldfields. Main attractions include: The historic townships of Ararat, Ballarat, Bendigo, Clunes and Castlemaine, Ballarat Wildlife Park, Buda Historic Home and Gardens, Gold Fossicking, Prospecting, Victoria's Mining History and the Golden Dragon Museum. more

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Bottle Museum, Talbot Rd,Ph: (03) 5345 3896

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