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Darwin, city (1991 pop. 67,946), capital of the Northern Territory, N Australia, on Port Darwin, an inlet of the Timor Sea. Remotely situated on the sparsely settled north coast, Darwin had no rail connection with any of the major Australian cities until 2003, when the line to Adelaide was completed. Australian military personnel and their dependents make up a large part of the population. Darwin is multicultural, with large Chinese and aboriginal populations. In World War II the city was heavily bombed by the Japanese; later a military airdrome, fuel-oil installations, and a wharf were built, and Darwin became a key Allied base. Originally called Palmerston, the town was renamed (1911) for Charles Darwin because its site had been a stop (1839) during a voyage of Darwin's ship, the Beagle. The city was almost completely destroyed by a cyclone in Dec., 1974. It was rebuilt and now attracts large numbers of tourists who visit nearby Kakadu National Park.

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Darwin most commonly refers to:

Charles Darwin (1809–1882), renowned naturalist and thinker associated with the theory of evolution by natural selection
Darwin, Northern Territory, capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia, named after Charles Darwin

Darwin may also refer to:

People

The Darwin-Wedgwood family:

Charles Darwin (1809–1882), renowned biologist
Bernard Darwin (1876–1961), Charles Darwin's grandson, golf writer
Carola Darwin, Charles Darwin's great-great-granddaughter, opera singer
Charles Galton Darwin (1887–1962), Charles Darwin's grandson, mathematician, physicist and eugenicist
Emma Darwin (1808–1896), Charles Darwin's wife
Emma Darwin (novelist), Charles Darwin's great-great-granddaughter, novelist
Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), Charles' grandfather, himself a naturalist and doctor with early published ideas about evolution
George Darwin (1845–1912), Charles Darwin's son, astronomer and mathematician
Leonard Darwin (1850–1943), Charles Darwin's son, economist, eugenicist, and politician
Robert Darwin (1766–1848), Charles' father

Mike Darwin (1955–), cryonics pioneer, writer, and scientific researcher
John Darwin disappearance case--regarding John Darwin (1950–), a former teacher and prison officer who received extensive coverage in the UK media in 2007 for alleged insurance fraud involving the faking of his own death
Danny Darwin, a former Major League baseball player

Places

In Antarctica:

In Australia:

Charles Darwin Reserve, Western Australia
Charles Darwin University, university in Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin International Airport, located in Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin Dam (Tasmania)
Division of Darwin (1903-1955), a former Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania
Darwin Glass, an impact glass found near Mount Darwin, Tasmania
Darwin Crater, a probable impact crater in Tasmania
Mount Darwin (Tasmania)

In Europe:

Darwin College, Cambridge, a college of the University of Cambridge
Darwin College, Kent, a college of the University of Kent
Darwin Shopping Centre, Shrewsbury, a shopping centre named for Charles Darwin

In North America:

In South America:

Darwin, Falkland Islands
Darwin Sound, expanse of sea near Mount Darwin
Mount Darwin (Andes)

In The Philippines:

Darwin Araza(1974–2006)

Science and technology

Darwin (unit), a unit of evolution
Darwin (ESA), a multiple-satellite project planned by the European Space Agency
Darwin Information Typing Architecture, an XML standard
Darwin Medal, given by the Royal Society for achievements in biology
Darwin (programming game), a programming game developed in the 1960s
Darwin Streaming Server
Darwin (lunar crater)
Darwin's finches, a group of related birds from the Galápagos Islands
Darwin's Frog, a frog from South America
Darwin's Rhea, a species of Rhea, a flightless bird from South America
RRS Charles Darwin, used for scientific research in Britain
Darwin (operating system), a Unix-like operating system released by Apple Inc.
XDarwin, a port of the X Window System to run on the Mac OS X and Darwin operating systems