The more affluent travelled in coaches, horse drawn drays, or bullock wagons.
People made their way to the diggings by any means available to them. It is quite enough for them that gold is to be found and away they go.’ Journeys Publishing one such directory in 1852, George Butler Earp wrote, ‘men, who, under ordinary circumstances would be reckoned perfectly sane, are flying away in many cases without plan, preparation or foresight. who are constantly arriving with the most absurd expectations of finding gold and after spending a week or two in sauntering about depart quite disappointed in finding it requires hard work and patience to acquire it.’ While manuals and directories for prospective or newly arrived immigrants often sought to dispel the myths of quick and effortless wealth that were circulating, thousands upon thousands of people – of all classes, religions and backgrounds – failed to heed the warning and flocked to the diggings in haste. Many seasoned diggers regarded the new immigrants as ‘arrant fools. Many immigrants arrived ignorant of what lay ahead of them, and of the skill and patience required to live the life of a miner. Three years later, a sixth of all diggers were Chinese. Port Phillip Bay became packed with ships: ‘vessels are continually pouring in their living freight of gold-seekers upon our shores, and the cry is still “they come”.’ By 1854, approximately one in ten of the diggers on the fields was an immigrant from overseas, most frequently Chinese, British, American or European. People came from far and wide, often travelling for months in overcrowded ships. They arrive 500 and 600 a week.’Īfter the news of Victoria’s gold discoveries reached Britain in January 1851, British, Irish, and European immigrants began to arrive in Melbourne to seek their fortunes. The writer William Howitt noted with astonishment, ‘the number of people pouring into the colony from all quarters is perfectly astounding. Others – from New Zealand, Europe, Britain, Ireland, China, and elsewhere – made the voyage by sea. Eager fortune-seekers, from Melbourne, regional Victoria, and other Australian colonies reached their destination on foot or travelled on drays. Two months after the first gold discovery there were about eight thousand people at Mount Alexander a month later the population had escalated to about twenty thousand. Populations swelled from a few dozen prospectors to a few hundred, and then to thousands, as people continued to arrive. A month later, when news of gold discoveries at Castlemaine circulated, men and women flocked there in increasing numbers. Members of the public were invited to scour Hubble’s image archive for data that could be turned into stunning imagery.As the initial discovery of gold in August 1851 gained greater publicity, the small trickle of people arriving at the diggings became a stream and then a flood. The image won first prize in the ESA’s Hubble Hidden Treasures image processing competition. The data from this image were uncovered by Josh Lake, an astronomy teacher at Pomfret School in Connecticut. Some research indicates that the small galaxy is just passing by, distorted by the gravitational tug of the much larger Milky Way Galaxy.
LMC shares some features with spiral galaxies, such as a single arm and a clearly visible central bar. It is also relatively clear of the Milky Way’s busy and dusty plane offering a clear view uncluttered by bright foreground stars. This proximity – less than one-tenth the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the closest large spiral galaxy – allows astronomers to study star formation as well as galaxy evolution in detail. The LMC, an irregular dwarf galaxy, is close astronomically speaking. Explore a broader view of N11.Īlot of Hubble’s time is spent peering at the star clouds of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Bright pockets of star formation, NGC 1769, in the center, and NGC 1763, to the right in the image, dominate this scene. Massive stars, born from the cloud itself, blast the surrounding nebula with stellar winds and ultraviolet radiation that ionizes the hydrogen gas causing it to glow. Hydrogen gas glows its characteristic pinkish-red throughout the image providing plenty of fuel for new stars. Explore the regions of colorful gas and dark fingers of fine dust. It is the brightest and most prolific stellar nursery known to scientists. This region of the Large Magellanic cloud is ablaze with star formation. And it’s worth the wait.īehold LHA 120-N 11, or just simply N11, in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Light from the Large Magellanic Cloud takes nearly 200,000 years to travel to Earth. Zoom by John Williams/TerraZoom using Zoomify. Hubble view of star formation region N11 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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