🏙️ Black Hill, Victoria

Black Hill is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in the northeast of the city. It is named after the major landmark, Black Hill, on which there was extensive and highly profitable open-cut gold mining from the early 1850s during the Victoria gold rush. The hill was originally known as Bowdun by the Wadawurrung people, but was later renamed Black Hill by surveyor William Urquhart.