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 region of Tasmania, Australia. At above sea level, it is the highest mountain in the range and within the top thirty highest mountains in Tasmania. Location an ...

, Australia *

Murchison bioregion The Murchison is an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, interim Australian bioregion located within the Mid West region of Western Australia, Mid West of Western Australia. The bioregion is loosely related to the catchment ar ...

, a bioregion in Western Australia *

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

, Uganda * Murchison Glacier, New Zealand *

Murchison Island Murchison may refer to: Geographical features * Lake Murchison, Tasmania, Australia * Mount Murchison (Tasmania), Australia * Murchison bioregion, a bioregion in Western Australia * Murchison Falls, Uganda * Murchison Glacier, New Zealand * Mur ...

, an island in Lake Nipigon, Ontario, Canada *

Murchison Promontory Murchison Promontory (), a cape ( promontory) in the northern Canadian Arctic, is the northernmost mainland point of the Americas and of Canada.

, Canada *

Murchison Range The Stauning Alps ( da, Stauning Alper) are a large system of mountain ranges in Scoresby Land, King Christian X Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively the Stauning Alps are part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. This mount ...

, Stauning Alps, Greenland *

Murchison River (disambiguation) Murchison River may refer to the following: * Murchison River (New Zealand) * Murchison River (Tasmania) * Murchison River (Western Australia) * Murchison River (Nunavut) (''Kuuk'') * Murchison River Gorge Murchison River Gorge is a riverine ...

Murchison Sound The Murchison Sound ( da, Murchison Sund; kl, Uummannaq) 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 roug ...

, 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 and managed by the Ugandan Wildlife Authority. It is in north-western Uganda, spreading inland from the shores of Lake Albert (Africa), Lake Albert, around the Victoria Nile, up 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 ...

, 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 an ...

, an electorate in the Tasmanian Legislative Council *

Murchison County Murchison County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales, Australia. Murchison County is named in honour of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet, (19 February 1792 – 22 October 1871 ...

, New South Wales *

Murchison, Victoria Murchison is a small riverside rural village 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 surr ...

Shire of Murchison The Shire of Murchison covers a large area of the Murchison sub-region of the central part of Western Australia, northeast of Geraldton. The shire and the older 'Murchison' region and goldfield are now part of the designated Mid West region. I ...

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

South Africa

Murchison, KwaZulu-Natal Murchison is a 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 west of Port Shepstone. It borders the villages of Madakana, ...

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 President ...

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 Matakitaki River. The other two rivers are the Mangles River, an ...

Murchison, Texas Murchison is a city in Henderson County, Texas, United States. The population was 594 at the 2010 census. Geography Murchison is located northeast of the center of Henderson County at (32.278405, –95.755179). Texas State Highway 31 passes ...

, 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 (1882–1 ...

, 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 and ...

, awarded by the Geological Society of London *

Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory The Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) was established by CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) in 2009. It lies in a designated radio quiet zone located near Boolardy Station in the Murchison Shire of We ...

, 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 Chladn ...

, a crater on the moon *

Murchison Building The Murchison Building is an eleven-story brick and marble building in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. It occupies the corner of Front and Chestnut Street. Sitting on historic waterfront property, the building overlooks the Cotton Exchange and Ca ...

in Wilmington, North Carolina *

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

, a road in Tasmania *

Murchison letter The Murchison letter was a political scandal during the 1888 US presidential election between Grover Cleveland, the Democratic incumbent, and the Republican nominee, Benjamin Harrison. The letter was sent by Sir Lionel Sackville-West to "Charles ...

, 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 an ...

, 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 (Australia), stockman known as "Snowy" Rowles (born John Thomas Smith), near the rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia during the early 1930s. Rowles us ...

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 Miscarriage of justice, wrongfully convicted in one of Australia's most publicised murder trials. Accused of killing ...

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 researche ...

(1887–1961), American psychologist *

Charles Murchison (politician) Sir Charles Kenneth Murchison (22 September 1872 – 17 December 1952) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull East. Standing as a Coalition C ...

(1872–1952), British politician * Charles Murchison (physician) (1830–1879), British physician *

Charlotte Murchison Charlotte Murchison (''née'' Hugonin; 18 April 1788 – 9 February 1869) was a British geologist born in Hampshire, England. She was married to the nineteenth-century geologist Roderick Impey Murchison. Several times during her life, the coupl ...

(1788–1869), Scottish geologist *

Christian Murchison Christian Murchison (born 1 November 1980) is a racing driver from Singapore. Biography In 2003, Murchison finished 10th in the Eurocup Formula Renault V6 Championship. In 2000 and 2001, he was the runner-up in the Australian Formula Holden C ...

(b. 1980), Singaporean racing driver *

Clint Murchison Jr. Clinton Williams Murchison Jr. (September 12, 1923 – March 30, 1987) was a businessman and founder of the Dallas Cowboys football team. A son of Clint Murchison Sr., who made his first fortune in oil exploration and became notorious for exploi ...

(1923–1987), Texas businessman * Clint Murchison Sr. (1895–1969), Texas businessman * Ira Murchison (1933–1994), American athlete *

Kenneth Murchison Kenneth Murchison (1794 - 1 August 1854) was the Resident Councillor of Penang and Resident Councillor of Singapore, as well as the third Governor of the Straits Settlements. Early life Murchison was born in Scotland in 1794 to Barbara (née ...

(1794–1854), British diplomat *

Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison, Jr. (September 29, 1872 – December 15, 1938) was a prominent American Beaux-Arts and Gothic Revival architect. Early life He was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1872. Murchison graduated from Columbia Universi ...

(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 1923 ...

(1898–1979), American athlete * Michael Murchison, Australian music producer *

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

(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 Thomas Malcolm Murchison (October 8, 1896 – October 20, 1962) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for two seasons. He pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1917 and the Cleveland Indians The Cleveland Guardians are an American p ...

(1896–1962), American baseball player * William Murchison, American political columnist