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Melbourne. Oceania - Australia - Victoria. Inhabited place. Longitude: 144.9667. Latitude: -37.8160.

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Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Journal of John Mackay, a Haddington man, describing his sea voyage to the Australian goldfields.

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Identifier: Acc.6158
Scope and Contents Ledger containing journal of John Mackay, an iron foundry moulder from West Port, Haddington, who emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, in 1852, possibly intending to join the gold rush. The journal was written for Mackay's family in Scotland. Daily entries describe the 110 days Mackay spent travelling from Glasgow to Liverpool and his sea voyage to Melbourne aboard the ship 'Mobile' as a steerage passenger with his brother Arthur Mackay and sister-in-law Janet Mackay, between 9 July and 12...
Dates: 1852.

Papers of Alexander Hunter.

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Identifier: Acc.9560
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Includes two diplomas, 1835 and 1844, of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and address, 1861, from friends on Hunter`s leaving Melbourne.

Dates: 1835-1861.

Papers of the Reverend David Thomas.

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Identifier: Acc.9863
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Includes:

journal, 1904, of a visit to Australia, with an edited typescript

volume of hymns, undated

photograph, undated, of "Old Scotch Collegians" in Melbourne

Dates: 1904 and undated.

Photocopy of a diary of William R Ramsay.

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Identifier: Acc.10227
Scope and Contents

Details a journey from Greenock, Scotland to Melbourne, Australia.

With photocopy of transcript and other documents.

Dates: 1854.