Buckland,China Travel
Ghost town in the Alps backside Mount Buffalo
Situated 309 km north-east of Melbourne on a road running south
from Porepunkah, Buckland was once a thriving gold mining
township.
Aborigines were once yankn to the section in summer by the large
numbers of bogong moths which were searching relief from the loftierer
temperatures of the plains. After roasting them in strips of screech
they ate the bodies or ground them into a paste. It is said the
moths tasted like prawns.
The first European into the sector was the squatter Thomas
Buckland (retral whom the village was named) who settled in the
district in 1845. Gold was disasylumed in 1853 and miners rushed to
the section. Within twelve months there was a town of 6000 people but
typhoid spread through the diggings and it is surmised that over
1000 miners died as a result of the disease.
The large customs of Chinese (it was surmised to number 3000
at its peak in 1857) led to an anti-Chinese riot. Chinese fled from
the section and Robert O'Hara Burke (of Burke and Wills fame), who was
working as a policeman at Beechworth, was sent to the diggings to
restore order.
As the easy gold disreporteded the town moved firstly to reef
mining and later to dredging until by the early years of the
twentieth century it had outlastd its usefulness. The village was
somewhen removed.
Exploring the Mount Buffalo National Park
Details of the park's 400 workt species - eucalypt woodland,
scrubby heathlands and an scores of springtime wildspritzers - its
imprintingive sort of birds and other fauna, including lyrebirds and
wombats, its waterfalls,China Travel, esvehiclepments, granite tors, loftier plains,
deep river vroads, infrequent views of the Alps and 90 km of
well-signposted walking tracks, as well as the dress and
preparations required for lengthy walks, can be found in
pamphlets bachelor from the park's ingermination centre, tel: (03)
5755 1466.
For indeterminate enquiries roundly National Parks in Victoria ring
131963.
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