Buckland River (Ovens River)

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Buckland River
Buckland River at Beveridges Station

Buckland River at Beveridges Station

Data
location Victoria , Australia
River system Murray River
Drain over Ovens River  → Murray River  → Indian Ocean
origin Confluence of Buckland River East and West Branch at Buckland Junction
36 ° 52 ′ 30 ″  S , 146 ° 52 ′ 17 ″  E
muzzle at Porepunkah in the Ovens River Coordinates: 36 ° 41 ′ 29 "  S , 146 ° 53 ′ 55"  E 36 ° 41 ′ 29 "  S , 146 ° 53 ′ 55"  E
Mouth height 274  m 

length 38.5 km incl. Buckland River East Branch
Small towns Buckland

The Buckland River is a tributary of the Ovens River in the Australian state of Victoria . He is known for his fly fishing for trout and for the Buckland Valley.

Buckland riot

A violent confrontation between Chinese and European prospectors took place on the Buckland River on July 4, 1857. 6,000 prospectors lived on the Upper Ovens Goldfield , in an area that now includes the towns of Harrietville , Bright and Wandiligong . The large crowd that stretched across the area created problems and an anti-Chinese confrontation broke out, known as the Buckland Riot . 500 Europeans and 2,000 or 2,500 Chinese worked there during the conflict. They had been fighting over this area for weeks. There were brawls, robberies and the destruction of Chinese camps. Some Chinese people died as a result of this conflict, but the exact figures are not known.

This dispute led to the Victorian government enacting rules on Chinese immigration. These and other disputes later led to the White Australia Policy .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b map (PDF, 97 kB) at the Victoria Department of Primary Industries
  2. ↑ a b bonzle.com: Map of Buckland River, VIC , accessed April 26, 2010
  3. ↑ Fishing. High country. ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 10, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.visitvictoria.com
  4. ↑ Buckland Riot on egold.net.au Accessed 10 April 2010