Walhalla Historic area, Melbourne Landrover Festival 2018
Interesting area to visit, Walhalla historic area, Extending long tunnel gold mine, Old Post office museum, Old Train and railway experience beuatiful landscape around
Mountain Experience in Walhalla historic area, Victoria
Crossing Aberfeldy river when Melbourne Landrover Festival 2018 , Some attraction here, old train, under ground, long tunnel extended gold mine experience, old Walhalla post office museum, and beautiful landscape
Ollie Dobratz
Curator of the Walhalla (Post Office) Museum and former guide of the Walhalla mines, Ollie Dobratz talks about the history of the town, while perusing images from an album of pre-1905 Walhalla images.
Filmmaker: Sophie Boord
Copyright West Gippsland Regional Library Corporation
This film forms part of the Walhalla: fires, floods and tons of gold story on the Culture Victoria website:
Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, gold diggers town - 1850s
Sovereign Hill is a recreation of a gold diggers town of the 1850s in Ballarat, Victoria - the site of gld diggings in the period
Ghost town
A ghost town is an abandoned village, town or city, usually one which contains substantial visible remains. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, or nuclear disasters. The term can sometimes refer to cities, towns, and neighborhoods which are still populated, but significantly less so than in years past; for example those affected by high levels of unemployment and dereliction.
Some ghost towns, especially those that preserve period-specific architecture, have become tourist attractions. Some examples are Bannack, Montana; Calico, California; Centralia, Pennsylvania; and Oatman, Arizona in the United States; Barkerville, British Columbia in Canada; Craco in Italy; Elizabeth Bay and Kolmanskop in Namibia; and Pripyat in Ukraine. Visiting, writing about, and photographing ghost towns is a minor industry. A recent modern-day example is Ōkuma, Fukushima, which was abandoned due to the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami incident.
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Ghost town | Wikipedia audio article
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Ghost town
00:01:07 1 Definition
00:02:13 2 Reasons for abandonment
00:02:46 2.1 Economic activity shifting elsewhere
00:05:02 2.2 Human intervention
00:07:32 2.2.1 Flooding by dams
00:09:02 2.2.2 Massacres
00:09:34 2.3 Disasters, actual and anticipated
00:11:58 2.4 Disease and contamination
00:13:44 3 Revived ghost towns
00:15:09 4 Around the world
00:15:18 4.1 Africa
00:16:54 4.2 Asia
00:17:45 4.3 Antarctica
00:19:23 4.4 Europe
00:22:24 4.5 North America
00:22:32 4.5.1 Canada
00:24:00 4.5.2 United States
00:26:36 4.6 Latin America
00:27:48 4.7 Oceania
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A ghost town is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remains. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, prolonged droughts, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, pollution, or nuclear disasters. The term can sometimes refer to cities, towns, and neighbourhoods that are still populated, but significantly less so than in past years; for example, those affected by high levels of unemployment and dereliction.Some ghost towns, especially those that preserve period-specific architecture, have become tourist attractions. Some examples are Bannack, Calico, Centralia, Oatman, and South Pass City in the United States, Barkerville in Canada, Craco in Italy, Elizabeth Bay and Kolmanskop in Namibia, Pripyat in Ukraine, and Danushkodi in India.
The town of Plymouth on the Caribbean island of Montserrat is a ghost town that is the de jure capital of Montserrat. It was rendered uninhabitable by volcanic ash from an eruption.