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Common meanings

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended fr ...

(1809–1882), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection *

Darwin, Northern Territory Darwin ( ; Larrakia: ) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With an estimated population of 147,255 as of 2019, the city contains the majority of the residents of the sparsely populated Northern Territory. It is the smalle ...

, a territorial capital city in Australia

Arts and entertainment

* ''Darwin'' (1920 film), a German silent film * ''Darwin'' (2011 film), a documentary * ''Darwin'' (2015 film), a science fiction film by Alain Desrochers * Darwin (''seaQuest DSV''), a dolphin in the TV series ''seaQuest DSV'' * ''

Darwin! ''Darwin!'' is the second studio album by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, released in 1972 on the Ricordi label. It is a concept album about the birth and the evolution of life on Earth. The album is highly rated by progressive rock fans as one of the ...

'', a 1972 album by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso * '' Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist'', a 1991 biography of Charles Darwin *

Darwin (Marvel Comics) Armando Muñoz, also known by his codename Darwin, is a mutant superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Edi Gathegi played the character in the film '' X-Men: First Class''. Publication history Darwin first appe ...

, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe associated with the X-Men * Darwin Watterson, a character from the 2011 TV series ''

The Amazing World of Gumball ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' is an animated sitcom created by Ben Bocquelet for Cartoon Network. The series concerns the lives of 12-year-old Gumball Watterson, an anthropomorphic blue cat, and adoptive goldfish brother Darwin, who attend ...

Astronomy

* 1991 Darwin, a main-belt asteroid *

Darwin (lunar crater) Darwin is a lunar impact crater of the type categorised as a walled plain. It lies in the southeastern part of the Moon, and is sufficiently close to the limb to appear significantly foreshortened when viewed from the Earth. Attached to its sou ...

Darwin (Martian crater) Darwin may refer to: Common meanings * Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection * Darwin, Northern Territory, a territorial capital city i ...

Darwin (spacecraft) Darwin was a suggested ESA Cornerstone mission which would have involved a constellation of four to nine spacecraft designed to directly detect Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars and search for evidence of life on these planets. The most ...

, a European Space Agency project

Computing

Darwin (operating system) Darwin is an open-source Unix operating system first released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, Mach, and other free software projects' code, as well as code developed by Apple. Darwin forms the Unix-b ...

, the Unix base for Apple's iOS and macOS operating systems *

Darwin (programming game) Darwin was a programming game invented in August 1961 by Victor A. Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and M. Douglas McIlroy. ( Dennis Ritchie is sometimes incorrectly cited as a co-author, but was not involved.) The game was developed at Bell Labs, ...

Darwin (programming language) Darwin is a closed source programming language developed by Gaston Gonnet and colleagues at ETH Zurich. It is used to develop the OMA orthology inference software, which was also initially developed by Gonnet. The language backend consists of th ...

Darwin (ADL) Darwin is an architecture description language (ADL). It can be used in a software engineering context to describe the organisation of a piece of software in terms of components, their interfaces and the bindings between components. Darwin encoura ...

, an architecture description language *

Darwin Information Typing Architecture The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) specification defines a set of document types for authoring and organizing topic-oriented information, as well as a set of mechanisms for combining, extending, and constraining document types. It i ...

Darwin Streaming Server Darwin Streaming Server (DSS) was the first open sourced RTP/RTSP streaming server. It was released March 16, 1999 and is a fully featured RTSP/ RTP media streaming server capable of streaming a variety of media types including H.264/MPEG-4 AV ...

People

Darwin (surname) Darwin is a surname that is a modern spelling of Anglo-Saxon and Old English name Deorwine. Notable people with the surname include: *Members of Charles Darwin's family: **Anne Darwin (1841–1851), daughter of Charles Darwin (1809–1882) **Berna ...

, a surname (including a list of people with the name) *

Darwin (given name) Darwin is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Darwin Atapuma (born 1988), Colombian cyclist * Darwin Cerén (born 1989), Salvadoran footballer *Darwin Cook (born 1958), American basketball coach and former player * Darwin Echever ...

, a given name (including a list of people with the name)

Places

Antarctica

Darwin Glacier (Antarctica) Darwin Glacier () is a large glacier in Antarctica. It flows from the polar plateau eastward between the Darwin Mountains and the Cook Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf. The lower part of the glacier was mapped by the British National Antarctic Exp ...

, Oates Land *

Darwin Mountains The Darwin Mountains is a group of mountains between the Darwin and Hatherton glaciers in Antarctica. Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for Major Leonard Darwin, at that time Honorary Secretary of the R ...

, Oates Land *

Mount Darwin (Antarctica) Mount Darwin () is a prominent nunatak or glacier island, at the head of the Beardmore Glacier, near the edge of the polar plateau and about 5 mi WSW of Mount Bowers, rising to about 2,500 m (8,200 ft). It was discovered and named ...

, Ross Dependency

Australia

Northern Territory

City of Darwin The City of Darwin is a local government area of the Northern Territory, Australia. It includes the central business district of the capital, Darwin City, and represents two-thirds of its metropolitan population. The City covers an area of a ...

Darwin River, Northern Territory Darwin River is an outer suburban area in Darwin. The name of the locality derived from the Darwin River which flows through the locality.

Division of Darwin The Division of Darwin was an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania. The division was created in 1903 and abolished in 1955, west coast Tasmania locations at the last election held when it was replaced by the Division of Braddon. It was n ...

, a 1903–1955 election division

Tasmania

Darwin, Tasmania *''See also the Australian federal electoral Division of Darwin (1903–1955) for the electoral division now known as Division of Braddon'' Darwin was a surveyed and short-lived community at the eastern side of Mount Darwin on the West Coast Ra ...

, a short-lived community *

Mount Darwin (Tasmania) Mount Darwin is a mountain located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. With an elevation of above sea level, the mountain is situated on the West Coast Range. On the eastern side of the mountain is Darwin, a long-abandoned town ...

Darwin Crater Darwin Crater is a suspected meteorite impact crater in Western Tasmania about south of Queenstown, just within the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park. The crater is expressed as a rimless circular flat-floored depression, in diamet ...

, a suspected meteorite impact crater

Chile

Darwin Channel The Darwin Channel forms a westward continuation of the Aisén Fjord and links it to the Pacific Ocean at Isquiliac Island. It is located in the coast of Chile at approximately 45.4° south latitude. This is one of the main channels situated betwe ...

Darwin Sound The Darwin Sound is an expanse of seawater which forms a westward continuation of the Beagle Channel and links it to the Pacific Ocean at Londonderry Island and Stewart Island, not far from the southern tip of South America. It thus forms a naviga ...

Cordillera Darwin The Cordillera Darwin is an extensive mountain range mantled by an ice field that is located in Chile. Description Cordillera Darwin is located in the southwestern portion of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, entirely within the Chilean territory. ...

, Tierra del Fuego, a mountain range **

Mount Darwin (Andes) Mount Darwin () is a peak in Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego forming part of the Cordillera Darwin, the southernmost range of the Andes, just to the north of the Beagle Channel. Monte Darwin was for a long time considered as the highest peak in ...

, in the mountain range

United States

Darwin, California Darwin is an unincorporated mining community in Inyo County, California, United States. It is located southeast of Keeler, at an elevation of . The population was 43 at the 2010 census, down from 54 at the 2000 census. History It is named a ...

, an unincorporated community *

Mount Darwin (California) Mount Darwin is a flat-topped mountain in the Sierra Nevada, on the border of between Fresno and Inyo counties in Kings Canyon National Park and the John Muir Wilderness of California. History Two Australian geologists, Ernest Clayton Andrews a ...

Darwin Falls Darwin Falls is a waterfall located on the western edge of Death Valley National Park near the settlement of Panamint Springs, California. Although there exists a similarly named Darwin Falls Wilderness adjacent to the falls, the falls themselves ...

, a waterfall in California *

Darwin Township, Clark County, Illinois } Darwin Township is located along the Wabash River in eastern Clark County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 347 and it contained 148 housing units. The township was named for the village of Darwin, which was named for the ...

Darwin, Illinois Darwin is an unincorporated community in Darwin Township, Clark County, Illinois, Darwin Township, Clark County, Illinois, Clark County, Illinois, United States. Darwin is located along the Wabash River across from the state of Indiana. Darwin wa ...

, an unincorporated community in the township *

Darwin, Minnesota Darwin is a city in Meeker County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 350 at the 2010 census. It is one of several places claiming to be home of the largest ball of twine in the world. History Darwin was platted in 1869, and named f ...

, a city *

Darwin, Ohio Darwin is a small unincorporated community in central Bedford Township, Meigs County, Ohio, in the United States. It is located along U.S. Route 33 between Athens and Pomeroy, at its intersection with State Route 681. Education Public edu ...

, an unincorporated community * Darwin, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community *

Darwin, Texas Darwin was a coal mining town near Laredo in west central Webb County, Texas, United States at the confluence of the Rio Grande and Santo Tomas creek near the present day Colombia-Solidarity International Bridge. It was founded in 1882 after coa ...

, a ghost town * Darwin, Virginia, an unincorporated community

Outer space

Other

Darwin, Río Negro Darwin is a village and municipality in Río Negro Province in Argentina.Ministerio del Interior

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, Argentina, a municipality *

Darwin (ward) Darwin is a ward of the London Borough of Bromley, named after Charles Darwin, who lived and worked in the ward for 40 years. Geography It is the largest ward in Greater London, covering a very rural area including Downe, Cudham, Leaves Green, Lu ...

, an electoral ward in Greater London *

Darwin, Falkland Islands Darwin is a settlement in Lafonia on East Falkland, Falkland Islands, lying on Choiseul Sound, on the east side of the island's central isthmus, north of Goose Green. It was known occasionally (and still is from time to time) as Port Darwin. At ...

, a settlement *

Darwin Island Darwin Island (Spanish: ''Isla Darwin'') is among the smallest in the Galápagos Archipelago with an area of just . It is named in honour of English scientist Charles Darwin. With no dry landing sites, Darwin Island's main attractions are fo ...

, Galapagos Islands * Mount Darwin (New Zealand) - see

List of mountains of New Zealand by height The following are lists of mountains in New Zealand ordered by height. Names, heights, topographic prominence and isolation, and coordinates were extracted from the official Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Topo50 topographic maps at thint ...

Schools in England

Darwin College, Cambridge Darwin College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded on 28 July 1964, Darwin was Cambridge University's first graduate-only college, and also the first to admit both men and women. The college is named after one of the ...

Darwin College, Kent Darwin College is the fourth-oldest college of the University of Kent, an English higher education institution in the United Kingdom. It was opened in 1970. Namesake After much debate, the college was named after Charles Darwin, the biologist ...

Sport

* Darwin Baseball League, a North Australian league *

Darwin Rugby League The Darwin Rugby League is a former rugby league competition based in Darwin, Northern Territory. The competition is administered by the Northern Territory Rugby League which is the body that takes care of the league's affairs. It administered the ...

, a North Australian league

Transport

Darwin Airline Darwin Airline SA was a Swiss regional airline with its head office in Bioggio, Lugano flying under the brand name Adria Airways Switzerland. It operated scheduled domestic and international services in some western European countries. It used ...

, an airline in Switzerland *

Darwin International Airport Darwin International Airport is the busiest airport serving the Northern Territory and the tenth busiest airport in Australia. It is the only airport serving Darwin. The airport is located in Darwin's northern suburbs, from Darwin city ...

, an airport in Australia

Other uses

Darwin (unit) The darwin (d) is a unit of evolutionary change, defined by J. B. S. Haldane in 1949.J.B.S. Haldane (1949).Suggestions as to quantitative measurement of rates of evolution" ''Evolution'' 3:51–56. One darwin is defined to be an e-fold (about 2.71 ...

, a unit of evolutionary change *

Darwin Medal The Darwin Medal is one of the medals awarded by the Royal Society for "distinction in evolution, biological diversity and developmental, population and organismal biology". In 1885, International Darwin Memorial Fund was transferred to the ...

, awarded by the Royal Society for biology *

Darwin Awards The Darwin Awards are a tongue-in-cheek honor that originated in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool by dying or b ...

, tongue-in-cheek awards for people who remove themselves from reproducing through their stupidity *

Darwin Shopping Centre The Darwin Shopping Centre is the main shopping centre in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, comprising approximately 17 per cent of the town centre's retail offer by leasable area. It was built by John Laing Developments in 1989 and refurbish ...

, Shrewsbury * The Darwin Centre,

Natural History Museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more. ...

, London