Camperdown may refer to:
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Camperdown, New South Wales
Camperdown is an inner western suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Camperdown is located 4 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Inner West region. Camperdown lies across the ...
, a suburb of Sydney
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Camperdown, Victoria
Camperdown () is a town in southwestern Victoria, Australia, west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 census, Camperdown had a population of 3,369.
History
The Djargurd Wurrung people were the traditional Aboriginal people of the Ca ...
, a town in Western Victoria
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Camperdown Signal Station Camperdown Signal Station, also known as Camperdown Hill, is significant in Nova Scotia communication history. Overlooking the entrance to Halifax Harbour made it a strategic part of Halifax's defence system in the 18th century. The hill has been us ...
, operated 1797–1925, located on
Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia
Portuguese Cove is a rural community in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia on Route 349 on the Chebucto Peninsula .
History
The name comes from the Portuguese fishermen who for many years sailed in the summer months fishing in the ...
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Camperdown, Tyne and Wear
Camperdown is a village in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear in North East England. Camperdown is just south of Burradon, and the two villages are closely linked.
Both villages had coal mines.
See also
* The Battle of Camp ...
, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside
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Kamperduin
Camperduin (Kamperduin) is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Bergen, and lies about 12 km northwest of Alkmaar.
The hamlet was first mentioned between 918 and 948 Campthorpa. The current name m ...
, a village in the province of North Holland, on the North Sea coast
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Camperdown, Dundee
Camperdown is an area of Dundee, Scotland, best known for Camperdown Park, which is the largest park in the city.
The name is Dutch in origin, being the English version of Kamperduin, a village of the North Holland province (north of Haarlem) on ...
, a suburb of Dundee
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Camperdown, KwaZulu-Natal
Camperdown is a settlement in Umgungundlovu District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It is approximately 60 km by road northwest of Durban and 20 km southeast of Pietermaritzburg. It was laid out in 1865 on t ...
, a town
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Battle of Camperdown
The Battle of Camperdown (known in Dutch as the ''Zeeslag bij Kamperduin'') was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797, between the British North Sea Fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Batavian Navy (Dutch) fleet under Vice-Admiral ...
, a naval battle fought between the Dutch and British fleets in 1797 off the Dutch coast near Kamperduin
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HMS ''Camperdown'', four ships of the Royal Navy named after the battle
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Camperdown Elm Camperdown may refer to:
Places
;Australia
* Camperdown, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
* Camperdown, Victoria, a town in Western Victoria
;Canada
* Camperdown Signal Station, operated 1797–1925, located on Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia
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(or "Weeping Elm"), a type of tree
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The Ballad of the "Clampherdown", a satirical poem by Rudyard Kipling about a naval battle
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