Palmer Gold

Year of completion
1990
Content type
Documentary
Format
Short
Duration
53 minutes
Production Status
Completed

Synopsis

The Palmer Gold Rush was one of the most short-lived, bizarre, and yet productive gold rushes in the history of Australian mining. At one time 20,000 Chinese coolies worked on the goldfields, and ships arrived from all over the world, making the wharf at Cooktown a Babylon of multilingual chaos.
Completion Year
1990
Format
Short
Production Status
Completed