Sovereign Hill
An open-air museum in Ballarat that recreates the town's first ten years after gold was found there in 1851. Costumed people work the shops and smithies along its main street, and visitors can pan for gold in the creek.
- Where
- Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- -37.5751, 143.8660
Get the Sovereign Hill stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Sovereign Hill. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Victoria volume with your photos and a note.
Near Sovereign Hill
Melbourne Zoo 98 km
The oldest zoo in Australia, set within Royal Park in Parkville about 4 kilometres north of the city centre. It keeps thousands of animals of more than 240 species, from native wombats and platypus to elephants and gorillas.
Queen Victoria Market 99 km
The largest open-air market in the Southern Hemisphere, more than seven hectares of sheds and halls at the edge of the city centre. Its meat and deli halls and fruit stalls have traded since the 19th century, and summer nights bring a food market.
Eureka Tower 100 km
A 297 metre residential tower in Southbank, completed in 2006, its top floors capped with gold-plated glass. The Skydeck near the summit looks out over the whole city, and a glass box slides out from the building over the street below.
Melbourne Museum 101 km
A natural and cultural history museum in the Carlton Gardens, facing the Royal Exhibition Building. Among its collections are a living forest gallery, dinosaur skeletons and Phar Lap, the champion racehorse, mounted under glass.
Flinders Street Station 101 km
Melbourne's busiest railway station, a long yellow building with a green dome on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets. The row of clocks over its main entrance has been the city's favourite meeting place for generations.
Royal Exhibition Building 101 km
A domed exhibition hall built in 1879 to 1880 for the Melbourne International Exhibition, set in the Carlton Gardens. The first Parliament of Australia opened here in 1901, and it is one of the few great halls of the exhibition age still standing, now a World Heritage site.
Federation Square 101 km
A public square built over railway lines opposite Flinders Street Station, with angular buildings clad in sandstone, zinc and glass. It holds the Ian Potter Centre for Australian art, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the Koorie Heritage Trust.
National Gallery of Victoria 101 km
Australia's oldest and most visited art museum, founded in 1861 and housed on St Kilda Road behind a wall of running water. Inside, the Great Hall has a ceiling of stained glass that visitors lie on the floor to look up at.
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Questions
Where is Sovereign Hill?
Sovereign Hill is in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Melbourne Zoo (98 km), Queen Victoria Market (99 km), Eureka Tower (100 km).
How do I get the Sovereign Hill stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Sovereign Hill and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Victoria volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Sovereign Hill before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Victoria volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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