Mount Clear, Victoria
suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Mount Clear is a semi-rural suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia south of the CBD in the Canadian Creek Valley. At the 2021 census, Mount Clear had a population of 3,671.
Mount Clear is characterised by hilly topography flanked by bush and pine plantation forestry. The location, at the southern end of the White Horse Ranges, comprises a series of gentle hills running south from Golden Point immediately adjacent Ballarat City. This topography rises to the south west corner of Mount Clear and it is probably this feature that lead to the Mount terminology. There is no identified Mount Clear mountain or hill. Victorian Places speculates that the Clear part of the name was a result of its relatively elevated location being cleared of timber during or soon after the gold rushes.
The Whitehorse ranges separate the Canadian and Yarrowee Creeks. The beds of both creeks yielded massive gold finds, most prominently in the 19th Century. Mount Clear is on the southern periphery of these historic goldfields and has gold prospecting history.
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