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and go" or "round a bend I go") or by "aboriginal shepherds" ("to bendy go"); originally, Bandicoot Creek, later corrupted to Bendigo; or after a Portuguese miner named Bernand "Ben" Deigo.

The area was transformed in less than a year as tens of thousands of people arrived during the great gold rush in 1852. It was also called Castleton for a period of four months.

Widespread gold mining caused environmental devastation and permanent damage in the district, decimating and displacing the Dja Dja

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