Convincing ground
Convincing ground was a 19th‑century term used to describe a place where sports were staged in Australia and New Zealand. It has referred to a boxing arena in Australia, a social sports ground in 1891, a New Zealand cricket ground in 1862, and a New Zealand trotting track in 1904.
Two Australian place names still use the term: Convincing Ground Road at Karangi, New South Wales, and Convincing Ground, a flat coastal area near Allestree, close to Portland, Victoria, where a massacre of Aboriginal Gunditjmara people by whalers is thought to have occurred in 1833 or 1834.
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