A convincing ground was the name or journalistic

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for a place where sports were contested, having limited currency in the nineteenth century, predominantly in Australia and New Zealand. It has been used to describe a boxing arena in Australia, a social sports ground in 1891, a cricket ground in New Zealand in 1862, and a

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track in New Zealand in 1904. Two placenames in Australia retain the name: Convincing Ground Road at

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, and the Convincing Ground, a flat coastal area at

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near

Portland, Victoria Portland is a city in Victoria, Australia, and is the oldest European settlement in the state. It is also the main urban centre in the Shire of Glenelg and is located on Portland Bay. As of the 2021 census the population was 10,016, increasing ...

where a

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of Aboriginal

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people by whalers is thought to have occurred in 1833 or 1834.

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