Old towns of Oceania

Old towns of Oceania outlines a list of notable old towns in Oceania. Oceania's old towns are relatively young compared to European old towns: the indigenous cultures were not urban, and European colonists arrived in the last few centuries. For instance, Sydney, Australia's oldest city, was only established in 1788.

List

Australia

  • 🌍 Ballarat (VIC) – the centre of Victoria's 19th-century gold rush.
  • 🌍 Beechworth (VIC) – a much smaller 1850s-era gold rush town in the northeast of Victoria.
  • 🌍 Bendigo (VIC) – one of Australia's better preserved old towns, and Victoria's second gold rush centre.
  • 🌍 Berrima (NSW) – a preserved 1830s Georgian town along the Hume Highway.
  • 🌍 Carcoar (NSW) – often nicknamed as a town lost to time.
  • 🌍 Fremantle (WA)
  • 🌍 Hahndorf (SA) - A German town on the outskirts of Adelaide
  • 🌍 Hobart (TAS) - the state capital of Tasmania was founded in 1804
  • 🌍 Melbourne (VIC)
  • 🌍 Port Arthur (TAS) – Australia's best preserved convict site on Tasmania
  • 🌍 Ross (TAS) - another of Tasmania's historic towns with many of the oldest buildings in Tasmania as well as one of the oldest bridges.
  • 🌍 Sydney (NSW) — Australia's oldest city

New Zealand

  • 🌍 Dunedin (Otago) was a prosperous big city in the gold rush between 1865 and 1900 and several central streets remain from that era
  • 🌍 Lyttelton (Canterbury) is a port established in the 1840s and rebuilt after a fire in 1870.
  • 🌍 Russell (Northland) — The first permanent European settlement in New Zealand with a couple of streets from the 1840s

Norfolk Island

See also

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