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Central bendigo from botanic gardens
Bendigo from the botanical gardens

Bendigo is a city in central Victoria, Australia. There are about 86,000 people in Bendigo. It is the fourth biggest city in Victoria after Melbourne, Geelong and Ballarat. The city area is 3,000 square kilometres (1,200 sq mi) and has the towns Bendigo, Marong, Lockwood, Lockwood South, Ravenswood, Sebastian, Elmore, Heathcote, Maiden Gully, Lake Eppalock, Axedale, Goornong, Raywood and Huntly, all together, there are 100,000 people living there.

Strathfieldsaye

Strathfieldsaye is a small suburb in Bendigo. It takes its name from Stratfield Saye House, which was awarded to the Duke of Wellington after his defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. In the 2011 census, Strathfieldsaye had a population of 4,648.

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  • Bendigo Creek ST Gill

    Bendigo Creek, named after a local shepherd and amateur boxer who, in turn, earned the sobriquet because his fighting style resembled that of English bare-knuckle champion William Abednego "Bendigo" Thompson.

  • Charing Cross Bendigo 1853

    Bendigo, 1853

  • Deep Gully Mine Bendigo

    Deep Gully Mine, 1857

  • Sandhurst in 1884

    Bendigo from Camp Hill, 1886

  • Bendigo Streetscape

    Alexandra Fountain in Charing Cross, c. 1920s, now listed along with the surrounding buildings on the Victorian Heritage Register

  • Bendigo Fires 07022009 1

    Fire threatening houses in Long Gully, west of Bendigo, during the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires

  • Bendigo Cathedral

    Sacred Heart Cathedral, Australia's third tallest church building

  • Hargreaves mall bendigo

    Hargreaves Mall, Bendigo's main shopping area

  • Bendigo Building main street-01+ (573049668)

    Established in 1854, Shamrock Hotel was rebuilt in 1897.

  • Bendigo rosalind

    Rosalind Park featuring statuary and flanked by ornate Second Empire-style buildings

  • BendigoCapitalTheatre

    Capital Theatre

  • SunLoong

    Bendigo is home to Sun Loong, the world's longest imperial dragon, a symbol of the city's Chinese heritage and a major drawcard of Bendigo's Easter Festival procession. For the remainder of the year, it is on display in the Golden Dragon Museum.

  • BendigoTownHall2

    Bendigo Town Hall, a popular venue for music concerts

  • Queen Elizabeth Oval Bendigo VIC

    Queen Elizabeth Oval's 19th century grandstand

  • Bendigo talking tram

    Tourist tram passing the Bendigo Post Office

  • Bendigo offices - panoramio

    Bendigo Bank (left)

  • Bendigo School of Mines

    Bendigo School of Mines

  • Bendigo Tourist Tram

    Tram on Pall Mall

  • A Vline train at Bendigo station

    A Vline train at Bendigo railway station

See also

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