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Panorama of mine shafts and buildings at the diggings at Sovereign Hill in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
Sovereign Hill is a living museum of Ballarat during the 1850s gold rush. Working exhibits are brought to life by costumed characters, horses, and farm animals. The goldfields town features shops, hotels, a theatre, schools, factories, gold diggings and underground mines set on 25 acres of an original mining site.
Victoria is Australia's second smallest State and covers only 3% of Australia's land area but has the second highest population of all States and Territories. Victoria's mainland and islands have a total length of 2,512 kilometres coastline which is about 4.2% of Australia's 59,736 kilometres of coastline. Australia is the driest inhabited continent and Victoria is no exception although the state capital Melbourne has the reputation to have 4 seasons in one day. Victoria is located in the southeast of mainland Australia and includes the most southern point on mainland Australia at Wilsons Promontory National Park.
