1851 in Australia 1851 in Australia 1851 in Australia was a watershed year. It saw the start of the Australian gold rushes with significant gold discoveries in both New South Wales (near Bathurst) in February and Victoria in July. As a result of the Gold Rushes, the European population of Victoria increased from 97,489 in 1851 to 538,628 in 1861 and the population of NSW increased from 197,265 in 1851 to 350,860 in 1861. Victoria became a self-governing colony. Sentiment in the eastern Australian colonies moved decisively against penal transportation leading to the end of transportation to Tasmania in 1853. Melbourne's major suburb/satellite
Gold Rush (web series) Gold Rush (web series) Gold Rush is an American reality competition web series created by Mark Burnett, designed and programmed by VPI.Net and hosted by Mark Steines, that was released on AOL in 2006. The format was of an internet scavenger hunt that is offering chances to win $US50,000, $100,000 and $1,000,000. In a November 2006 interview, Burnett discussed creating a second round of "Gold Rush", but it did not come to fruition. "Gold Rush" consisted of 13 rounds of game play. In order to qualify for a chance to win, participants had to correctly complete a series of tasks