Murchison may refer to:

Geographical features

Lake Murchison Lake Murchison is a man-made water reservoir located in the western region of Tasmania, Australia. The lake is situated within the northern part of Tasmania's West Coast Range and is fed by the Murchison River, the George Creek, the Anthony Riv ...

, Tasmania, Australia *

Mount Murchison (Tasmania) Mount Murchison is a mountain on the West Coast Range, located in the West Coast, Tasmania, West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. At Australian Height Datum, above sea level, it is the highest mountain in the range and within the top thir ...

, Australia *

Murchison bioregion The Murchison is a loosely defined area of Western Australia located within the interior of the Mid West region. It was the subject of a major gold rush in the 1890s and remains a significant mining district. The Murchison is also included ...

, a bioregion in Western Australia *

Murchison Falls Murchison Falls, also known as Kabalega Falls, is a waterfall in Uganda, located at the apex of Lake Albert on the White Nile. At the top of Murchison Falls, the Nile forces its way through a gap in the rocks, only wide, and tumbles , before fl ...

, Uganda *

Murchison Glacier The Murchison Glacier is an long glacier flowing through Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in the South Island of New Zealand. Lying to the east of the Malte Brun range and west of the Liebig Range, high in the Southern Alps, it flows from the ...

, New Zealand * Murchison Island, an island in Lake Nipigon, Ontario, Canada * Murchison Promontory, Canada * Murchison Range, Stauning Alps, Greenland * Murchison River (disambiguation) *

Murchison Sound The Murchison Sound (; ) is a sound in the Avannaata municipality, NW Greenland.GoogleEarth It was named after Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison (1792 – 1871). Geography It is a broad channel that runs roughly from northwest to southeast b ...

, Greenland

National parks

* Iytwelepenty / Davenport Ranges National Park in Australia *

Murchison Falls National Park Murchison Falls National Park (MFNP) is a national park in Uganda managed by the Ugandan Wildlife Authority. Located in north-western Uganda, it spreads inland from the shores of Lake Albert around the Victoria Nile up to the Karuma Falls. To ...

in Uganda *

Murchison Mountains The Murchison Mountains () are a group of mountains in Fiordland National Park in New Zealand. It is the location where the South Island takahē, a type of bird presumed extinct, was rediscovered in 1948. The highest mountain is Mount Lyall at . ...

, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand

Places

Australia

Electoral district of Murchison-Eyre Murchison-Eyre was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1890 to 1989 and again from 2005 to 2008. Known as Murchison until 1968, it was one of the original 30 seats contested at t ...

, a former state electorate of Western Australia *

Electoral division of Murchison The electoral division of Murchison is one of the fifteen electorates in the Tasmanian Legislative Council, situated in the western/ north-west region of the state. It is the largest electorate in size, covering an area of 19,391 km² a ...

, an electorate in the Tasmanian Legislative Council * Murchison County, New South Wales *

Murchison, Victoria Murchison is a town located on the Goulburn River in Victoria, Australia. Murchison is located 167 kilometres from Melbourne and is just to the west of the Goulburn Valley Highway between Shepparton and Nagambie. The surrounding countryside co ...

Murchison (Western Australia) The Murchison is a loosely defined area of Western Australia located within the interior of the Mid West region. It was the subject of a major gold rush in the 1890s and remains a significant mining district. The Murchison is also included ...

, a sub-region in the state *

Shire of Murchison The Shire of Murchison is a 49,500 km² local government area (LGA), within the Murchison sub-region, in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Encompassing most of the Murchison and East Murchison goldfields, the shire is named after t ...

, a local government area in Western Australia ** Murchison Settlement, within the Shire

South Africa

Murchison, KwaZulu-Natal Murchison is a peri-urban settlement in the Ugu District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Geography Murchison is located on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) west of Port Shepstone. It borders the v ...

Murchison, Limpopo Murchison is a town in Mopani District Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa. Mining village 20 km north-east of Leydsdorp and 44 km west of Phalaborwa. Named after Sir Roderick Murchison, a geologist and former Presiden ...

Other places

Murchison, New Zealand Murchison is a town in the Tasman Region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is near the western end of the "Four Rivers Plain", at the confluence of the Buller River and the Mātakitaki River. The other two rivers are the Mangles River, and ...

Murchison, Texas Murchison is a city in Henderson County, Texas, United States. The population was 516 at the 2020 census. Geography Murchison is located northeast of the center of Henderson County. Texas State Highway 31 passes through the center of town, ...

, United States

Science

Murchison Award The Murchison Award, also referred to as the Murchison Grant, was first given by the Royal Geographical Society in 1882 for publications judged to have contributed most to geographical science in preceding recent years. Recipients Source (1882– ...

, awarded by the Royal Geographical Society *

The Murchison Fund The Murchison Fund is an award given by the Geological Society of London to researchers under the age of 40 who have contributed substantially to the study of hard rock and tectonic geology. It is named in honour of Prof. Roderick Impey Murchison. ...

, awarded by the Geological Society of London *

Murchison Medal The Murchison Medal is an academic award established by Roderick Murchison, who died in 1871. First awarded in 1873, it is normally given to people who have made a significant contribution to geology by means of a substantial body of research an ...

, awarded by the Geological Society of London *

Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory was established by CSIRO, Australia's national science centre in 2009. It lies in a designated radio quiet zone located near Boolardy Station in the Murchison Shire of ...

, a designated radio quiet zone in Western Australia. *

Murchison Widefield Array The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a joint project between an international consortium of organisations to construct and operate a low-frequency radio array. 'Widefield' refers to its very large field of view (on the order of 30 degrees ac ...

, a radio telescope in Western Australia

Other uses

Murchison (crater) Murchison is a lunar impact crater on the north edge of the Sinus Medii. It was named in honour of the geologist Sir Roderick Murchison. It shares a section of rim with the crater Pallas. To the southeast on the mare is the circular crater Chl ...

, a crater on the Moon * Murchison Building in Wilmington, North Carolina *

Murchison Highway The Murchison Highway is a highway located in the West Coast, Tasmania, West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. The highway runs generally north–south, with Somerset, Tasmania, Somerset, near Burnie, as its northern terminus and Zeehan ...

, a road in Tasmania * Murchison letter, a political scandal in 1888 in U.S. *

Murchison meteorite The Murchison meteorite is a meteorite that fell in Australia in 1969 near Murchison, Victoria. It belongs to the carbonaceous chondrite class, a group of meteorites rich in organic compounds. Due to its mass (over ) and the fact that it was ...

, which fell in 1969 near Murchison, Victoria, Australia *

The Murchison Murders The Murchison Murders were a series of three murders, committed by an itinerant stockman known as "Snowy" Rowles (born John Thomas Smith), near the rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia during the early 1930s. Rowles used the murder method th ...

which occurred in the 1930s in the Murchison region of Western Australia * HMAS ''Murchison'' (K442), a warship of the Royal Australian Navy * '' In re Murchison'', a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case during the Warren Court

People with the surname

* Alice Lynne Murchison, maiden name of

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton Alice Lynne "Lindy" Chamberlain-Creighton (''née'' Murchison, born 4 March 1948) is a New Zealand–born Australian woman who was falsely convicted in one of Australia's most publicised and notorious murder trials and miscarriages of justice. ...

Carl Murchison Carl Allanmore Murchison (1887–1961) was an American psychologist and an early promoter of the discipline of psychology. Unlike most psychologists who became prominent in the history books, Murchison was not an influential theorist or research ...

(1887–1961), American psychologist * Charles Murchison (politician) (1872–1952), British politician * Charles Murchison (physician) (1830–1879), British physician * Charlotte Murchison (1788–1869), Scottish geologist * Christian Murchison (b. 1980), Singaporean racing driver * Clint Murchison Jr. (1923–1987), Texas businessman * Clint Murchison Sr. (1895–1969), Texas businessman * Elizabeth Murchison, British-Australian geneticist * Ira Murchison (1933–1994), American athlete * Kenneth Murchison (1794–1854), British diplomat * Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison (1872–1938), American architect * Larrell Murchison (b. 1997), American football player *

Loren Murchison Loren C. Murchison (December 17, 1898 – June 11, 1979) was an American athlete, double gold medal winner in 4 × 100 m relay at the Olympic Games. Biography Born in Farmersville, Texas, Loren Murchison was an AAU Champion in in 1920 and 19 ...

(1898–1979), American athlete *

Lucia Murchison Lucia Landrum Murchison (December 18, 1900 – January 31, 1983) was an American social worker and clubwoman. She was president of the South Carolina Public Health Association in 1965, and there is an annual Lucia Murchison Public Health Social ...

(1900–1983), American social worker *

Roderick Murchison Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet (19 February 1792 – 22 October 1871) was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871. He is noted for investigating and desc ...

(1792–1871), Scottish geologist for whom most of the geographical features above are directly or indirectly named * Sally Fletcher-Murchison (b. 1933), American-Hawaiian ceramicist * Tim Murchison (1896–1962), American baseball player * William Murchison, American political columnist