Robertson may refer to:
People
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Robertson (surname) Robertson is a patronymic surname, meaning "son of Robert". It originated in Scotland and northern England. Notable people with the surname include:
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*Rev. A. E. Robertson (1870–1958), first person to "bag" Scotlands 283 peaks
*Absalom Willis ...
(includes a list of people with this name)
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Robertson (given name) Robertson is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Robertson Davies (1913-1995), Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor
*Robertson Gladstone (1805–1875), English merchant and politician
*Robertson Hare (189 ...
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Clan Robertson
Clan Donnachaidh (Scottish Gaelic: Clann Donnchaidh ), also known as Clan Robertson or Clan Duncan is a Scottish clan.
History Origins
There are two main theories as to the origins of the Clan Donnachaidh:
#That the founder of the clan, Donn(a) ...
, a Scottish clan
* Robertson, stage name of Belgian magician
Étienne-Gaspard Robert
Étienne-Gaspard Robert (15 June 1763 – 2 July 1837), often known by the stage name of "Robertson", was a prominent Liégeois (now part of Belgium) physicist, stage magician and influential developer of phantasmagoria. He was described by C ...
(1763–1837)
Places
Australia
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Division of Robertson
The Division of Robertson is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
Geography
Federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined since 1984, at redistributions by a redistribution committee appo ...
, electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales
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Robertson, New South Wales
Robertson is a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. The town is located on the edge of an elevated plateau (the Illawarra escarpment) about from the coast.
Robertson is known for its high annu ...
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Robertson, Queensland
Robertson is an outer-southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Robertson had a population of 4,973 people.
Geography
Robertson is by road (M3 Freeway) south-east of the Brisbane CBD.
Robertson is loosely bound ...
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Robertson Barracks
Robertson Barracks is a major Australian Army base located in the Northern Territory of Australia within the suburb of Holtze in the Municipality of Litchfield about east of the Darwin city centre. The barracks were built during the 1990s. Th ...
, an Australian Army base near Darwin, Northern Territory
United States
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Robertson Boulevard (Los Angeles)
Robertson Boulevard is a street in Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California, that also passes through the incorporated cities of West Hollywood, California, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, California, Beverly Hills, and Culver City, California ...
, California
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Robertson Gymnasium
Robertson Gymnasium is a 2,600 to 4,000-seat multi-purpose indoor arena located on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California.
History
Robertson Gymnasium was built in 1958 and completed in 1959. The ...
, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Robertson Field (Connecticut)
Robertson Airport , also known as Robertson Field, is a public use airport in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It is owned by the town of Plainville and is located two nautical miles (4 km) north of its central business dist ...
, a public airport
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Robertson County, Kentucky
Robertson County is a county located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,282. Its county seat is Mount Olivet. The county is named for George Robertson, a Kentucky Congressman from 1817 to 1821. It ...
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Robertson Field (North Dakota)
Robertson Field is a public use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) west-southwest of the central business district of Langdon, a city in Cavalier County, North Dakota, United States. It is owned by the Langdon Airport Authority ...
, a public airport
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Robertson Tunnel
The Robertson Tunnel is a twin-bore light rail tunnel through the Tualatin Mountains west of Portland, Oregon, United States, used by the MAX Blue and Red Lines. The tunnel is long'' Light Rail and Modern Tramway'', November 1993, p. 302. U ...
, Portland, Oregon, a light rail transit tunnel
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Robertson County, Tennessee
Robertson County is a County (United States), county located on the central northern border of Tennessee in the United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 72,803 people. Its county seat is Springfield, Tennessee, Spri ...
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Robertson County, Texas
Robertson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 16,757. Its county seat is Franklin. The county was created in 1837 and organized the following year. It is named for Sterling C. Robertson, an ...
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Robertson Stadium
John O'Quinn Field at Corbin J. Robertson Stadium (often referred to as simply Robertson Stadium) was a multi-purpose stadium in Houston, located on the campus of the University of Houston. It was the home of the Houston Cougars football and wome ...
, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
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Robertson's Colony
Robertson's Colony was an empresario colonization effort during the Mexican Texas period. It is named after Sterling C. Robertson, but had previously been known by other names. It has also been referred to as the Nashville Colony, after the Ten ...
, Texas
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Robertson, Wyoming
Robertson is a census-designated place (CDP) in Uinta County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 97 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Robertson is located at (41.190095, -110.429333).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP ha ...
Elsewhere
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Cape Robertson
Cape Robertson is a cape which marks the west side of the entrance to Jessie Bay, in the north-west part of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica.
It lies east of Route Point at the north end of Mackenzie Peninsula. On the ...
, Antarctica
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Cape Robertson, Greenland
Cape Robertson ( da, Kap Robertson), also known as Tuloriok, is a headland in Northwest Greenland, Avannaata municipality.
Geography
Cape Robertson is located in the northern shore of Murchison Sound, Baffin Bay. it rises at the end of a promont ...
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Robertson (crater)
Robertson is an important lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the western limb. It lies just to the south of Berkner, a formation with a comparable size but more eroded features. Just to the east is Helbe ...
, on the Moon
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Robertson, Western Cape
Robertson is a town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa founded on the theft of KHOIKHOI First nation land and cattle, known as the valley of wine and roses, at the heart of the wine route - Route 62 (South Africa), Route 62.
Khoikhoi F ...
, South Africa
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Robertson Island
Robertson Island is an ice-covered island, long in a northwest-southeast direction and wide, lying at the east end of the Seal Nunataks off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Captain Carl Anton Larsen discovered Robertson Island from t ...
, Antarctica
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Robertson Islands
The Robertson Islands or Robertsons Islands are a group of islands extending 6 km southward of the south-eastern extremity of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. They were discovered and roughly charted by Captains ...
, Antarctica
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Robertson Fjord
Siorapaluup Kangerlua, also known as Robertson Fjord and Robertson Bay, is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the southwest, the fjord opens into the Murchison Sound of the Baffin Bay.GoogleEarth Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municip ...
, Greenland
Other uses
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Robertson's
Robertson's is a British brand of marmalades and fruit preserves that was founded by James Robertson in 1864. The firm was run as a partnership until 1903, when it was incorporated as a limited company - James Robertson & Sons, Preserve Manufactu ...
, a UK brand of marmalades and jams
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Robertson screwdriver
At a minimum, a screw drive is a set of shaped cavities and protrusions on the screw head that allows torque to be applied to it. Usually, it also involves a mating tool, such as a screwdriver, that is used to turn it. The following heads are ca ...
, a square-shaped screwdriver
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Robertson Panel
The Robertson Panel was a scientific committee which met in January 1953 headed by Howard P. Robertson. The Panel arose from a recommendation to the Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC) in December 1952 from a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) re ...
, commissioned by the CIA in 1952 to investigate unidentified flying objects
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Robertson Scholars Program
The Robertson Scholars Leadership Program is a joint merit scholarship and leadership development program at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The scholarship offers participants a unique "dual citizenship" at b ...
, a joint program at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Robertson graph
In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Robertson graph or (4,5)-cage, is a 4- regular undirected graph with 19 vertices and 38 edges named after Neil Robertson.
The Robertson graph is the unique (4,5)-cage graph and was discovered by Robe ...
, in mathematics graph theory
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The Robertson Brothers
The Robertson Brothers is an Australian band of brothers who are best known for singing the ''Home and Away'' theme song, broadcast from 2000 to 2006.
At the ARIA Music Awards of 1994, their debut single "I Know Why" was nominated for ARIA Award ...
, Australian singing trio
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Robertson College
Robertson College is a private Canadian career training institution headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada. Robertson has campus locations in Winnipeg in Manitoba and Edmonton and Calgary in Alberta. Robertson offers diploma and certificate programs. ...
, a Canadian private career college
See also
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Roberts (disambiguation)
Roberts may refer to:
People
* Roberts (given name), a Latvian masculine given name
* Roberts (surname), a popular surname, especially among the Welsh
Places
* Roberts (crater), a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon
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Roberson (disambiguation) Roberson may refer to:
*Roberson (surname)
* Roberson Wine
*Roberson de Arruda Alves, Brazilian footballer
See also
* Robersonville, NC
* Robertson (disambiguation)
* Robinson (disambiguation)
* Robeson (disambiguation)
* Robason
* Stokes, NC Stok ...
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Robinson (disambiguation) Robinson may refer to:
People and names
* Robinson (name)
Fictional characters
* Robinson Crusoe, the main character, and title of a novel by Daniel Defoe, published in 1719
Geography
* Robinson projection, a map projection used since the 1960s ...
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Robson (disambiguation)
Robson may refer to:
People
Surname
*Robson (surname), a surname and list of people with that name
Given name
*Robson Bonnichsen (1940–2004), American anthropologist
*Robson Green (born 1964), British actor
*Róbson (footballer, born 1970), b ...
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Justice Robertson (disambiguation) Justice Robertson may refer to:
*Alexander George Morison Robertson (1867–1947), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii
*Edward D. Robertson Jr. (born 1952), chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri
*George Morison Robertson (1821 ...
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