Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park

Protected area in Victoria, Australia

37°11′29″S 144°12′59″E / 37.1915°S 144.2165°E / -37.1915; 144.2165Established2002Area75.5 km² (29.2 sq mi)Managing authoritiesParks VictoriaWebsiteCastlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park

The Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park is near the town of Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] The park protects a nationally significant historic cultural landscape of heritage value and relics of the Victorian gold rush.

The Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park was added to the Victorian Heritage Register in December 2003.^[5] It is the largest non-indigenous protected cultural landscape in Australia. In January 2005 the park was added to the Australian National Heritage List recognizing its outstanding heritage value and importance in the course of Australia’s migration history.^[6]

References

^ Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park web page, Parks Victoria, December 2010, retrieved 15 January 2012
^ Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park (PDF), Park Notes, Parks Victoria, December 2010, retrieved 15 January 2012
^ Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park Management Plan (PDF), Parks Victoria, April 2007, retrieved 15 January 2012
^ "CDNHP Walking Maps". Cartography Community Mapping. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
^ "Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park, Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H2047, Heritage Overlay HO981,HO998". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria.
^ Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park

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Protected areas of Victoria, Australia

Marine national parks
Bunurong Cape Howe Churchill Island Corner Inlet Discovery Bay French Island Ninety Mile Beach Point Addis Point Hicks Port Phillip Heads Twelve Apostles Wilsons Promontory Yaringa

National parks

Former

State parks

Arthurs Seat Black Range Broken-Boosey Bunyip Cape Nelson Cathedral Range Dergholm Enfield Holey Plains Kooyoora Lake Tyers Langi Ghiran Leaghur Lerderderg Moondarra Mount Arapiles-Tooan Mount Buangor Mount Granya Mount Lawson Mount Napier Mount Samaria Mount Worth Paddys Ranges Reef Hills Warrandyte Werribee Gorge
Former	Angahook–Lorne Barmah Carlisle Chiltern Coopracambra Eildon French Island Kamarooka Kara Kara Melba Gully (Great Otway NP) Nepean Pink Lakes Terrick Terrick Wabonga Plateau Warby Range (Warby-Ovens NP) Whipstick

Marine and coastal parks
Bay of Islands Bunurong Cape Conran Cape Liptrap Corner Inlet Discovery Bay Gippsland Lakes Nooramunga Shallow Inlet Wilsons Promontory Former Cape Schanck Point Cook

Marine sanctuaries
Barwon Bluff Beware Reef Eagle Rock Jawbone Marengo Reefs Merri Mushroom Reef Point Cooke Point Danger Ricketts Point The Arches

Other parks

Wilderness parks	Avon Big Desert Wilderness Park Wabba Wilderness Park
Heritage / Historic parks	Beechworth Historic Park Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park Point Gellibrand Heritage Park Steiglitz Historic Park Wimmera River Heritage Area Park Woodlands Historic Park