Buckland River (Victoria)

Buckland River at Beveridge station

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The Buckland River is a tributary of the Ovens River in Victoria, Australia. He is known for his fly-fishing for trout and for the Buckland Valley.

Buckland -riot

A violent confrontation between Chinese and European prospectors took place on July 4, 1857 at the Buckland River. On the Upper Ovens Goldfield, in an area that today includes the cities of Harrietville, Bright and Wandiligong, lived 6,000 prospectors. The large gathering of people, which extended over the territory led to problems, and there was an anti-Chinese conflict, known as the Buckland Riot ( Buckland -riot ). During the conflict, 500 Europeans and 2,000 or 2,500 Chinese working there. You for weeks had an argument around this area. There were beatings, robbery and destruction of Chinese camps, some Chinese came to the long-term consequences of this dispute to death, but exact numbers are not known.

This dispute led to the rules for the Chinese immigration were adopted by the Government of Victoria. These and other tensions led later to the White Australia Policy.