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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. 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. Warrandyte recorded a population of 5,541 at the . Warrandy ...

Andersons Creek Andersons Creek is a creek in Warrandyte and Park Orchards, east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is a tributary of the Yarra River. For tens of thousands of years it was used as a food and tool source sustainably by the Wurundjeri peop ...

in 1851. A cairn 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