Louis John Michel (1825–1904) is the person of which the suburb of Melbourne named Warrandyte was formed upon. He is credited with the first discovery of

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Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India * Victoria (state), a state of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital * Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...

. Gold was first discovered in

Warrandyte, Victoria Warrandyte ( ) is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Manningham local government area. It is built on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of th ...

Andersons Creek Andersons Creek is a Stream, creek in Warrandyte and Park Orchards, Victoria, Park Orchards, east of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. It is a tributary of the Yarra River. For tens of thousands of years it was used as a foo ...

in 1851. A

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was erected in 1938 marking the spot.

References

External links

Louis John Michel's biography at the Australian Dictionary of Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Michel, Louis John Australian gold prospectors 1825 births 1904 deaths