🚇 Blowhole Diversion Tunnel

Australia · Oceania · 37.31°S, 144.12°E

The Blowhole diversion tunnel is located on the Sailors Creek, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia. The creek flows around a spur in a horseshoe bend. The tunnel was driven through the spur diverting the river and allowing the exposed river bed to be sluiced for alluvial gold. It "was probably built in the early 1860s when Jim Crow Creek was being extensively worked by European and Chinese miners".

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Quick facts

Country	Australia
Continent / region	Oceania
Coordinates (approx.)	37.31°S, 144.12°E · view on map

Blowhole Diversion Tunnel is located in Australia, in Oceania.

More tunnels in Australia

Acton Tunnel · Bethungra Spiral · Big Peninsula Tunnel · Busby's Bore · Clarence Tunnel · Cougal Spiral · Cudgen Road Tunnel · Delegate River Diversion Tunnel · Devonshire Street Tunnel · Griffith Tunnel.

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