Several places, concepts, institutions, and things are namesakes of the English biologist Charles Darwin:

Places

Charles Darwin National Park Charles Darwin National Park is a national park in the Northern Territory of Australia, 4 km southeast of Darwin. It is notable for its World War II–era concrete bunkers, one of which has been converted into a visitors centre and display ...

* Charles Darwin Foundation * Charles Darwin Research Station *

Charles Darwin School Charles Darwin School is the only secondary school in the Biggin Hill area of the London Borough of Bromley, England. The school consists of 1,320 secondary and sixth form students. Currently the head teacher is Mr Aston Smith. The school has r ...

* Charles Darwin University *

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, Falkland Islands *

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 ...

Darwin Glacier (California) Darwin Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the north side of Mount Darwin in the Sierra Nevada, California. The glacier is located in Kings Canyon National Park. The glacier inherited its name from Mount Darwin, named for Charles Robert Darw ...

Darwin Guyot Darwin Guyot is a volcanic underwater mountain top, or guyot, in the Mid-Pacific Mountains between the Marshall Islands and Hawaii. Named after Charles Darwin, it rose above sea level more than 118 million years ago during the early Cretaceous pe ...

, a

seamount A seamount is a large geologic landform that rises from the ocean floor that does not reach to the water's surface (sea level), and thus is not an island, islet or cliff-rock. Seamounts are typically formed from extinct volcanoes that rise abru ...

in the Pacific Ocean * Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands * Darwin Island (Antarctica) *

Darwin Nature Reserve Darwin Nature Reserve, Darvinsky Zapovednik (russian: Дарвинский заповедник) is a nature reserve (a ''zapovednik'') in the north of Russia, located in Cherepovetsky District of Vologda Oblast and Breytovsky District of Yaroslav ...

Darwin Sound (Canada) Darwin Sound is a sound in the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, Canada. It is located between Moresby Island (W) and Lyell Island (E) and was named in 1878 by Canada's then-Chief Geographer George M. Dawson in honour of Charles Darwin ...

Darwin's Arch Darwin's Arch ( es, Arco de Darwin) was a natural rock arch feature to the south-east of Darwin Island in the Galápagos Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, and is now a pillar formation. The arch sat on an irregularly shaped, rocky, submerged ...

* Mount Darwin (Antarctica) *

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 ...

* Mount Darwin (Tasmania) * Mount Darwin (Zimbabwe)

Things named after Darwin in relation to his ''Beagle'' voyage

* Cordillera Darwin * Darwin's finches * Darwin's frog *

Darwin's rhea Darwin's rhea or the lesser rhea (''Rhea pennata'') is a large flightless bird, the smaller of the two extant species of rheas. It is found in the Altiplano and Patagonia in South America. Description The lesser rhea stands at tall. Length ...

* Darwin Sound *

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 ...

Scientific names of organisms

Some 250 species and several higher groups bear Darwin's name; most are insects. * '' Darwinilus'', a rove beetle * '' Darwinius'', an extinct primate * '' Darwinopterus'', a genus of pterosaur * ''

Darwinula ''Darwinula'' is a genus of ostracod Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp. Some 70,000 species (only 13,000 of which are extant) have been identified, grouped into several ...

'', a genus of

seed shrimp Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp. Some 70,000 species (only 13,000 of which are extant) have been identified, grouped into several orders. They are small crustaceans, typical ...

* ''

Darwinivelia ''Darwinivelia'' is a genus of true bugs belonging to the family Mesoveliidae Mesoveliidae is a family of water treaders in the order Hemiptera. There are about 16 genera and at least 50 described species in Mesoveliidae. Genera These 12 extan ...

'', a water treader genus * ''

Darwinysius ''Darwinysius'' is a genus of true bugs Hemiptera (; ) is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shi ...

'', a seed bug * '' Darwinomya'', a genus of flies * '' Darwinella'', a sponge genus * ''

Darwinsaurus ''Hypselospinus'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of '' Iguanodon'' (''I. fittoni'') by Richard Lydekker in 1889, the specific name honouring William Henry Fitton. History In May 2010 the fossils c ...

'', a dinosaur * ''

Darwinhydrus ''Darwinhydrus'' is a genus of predaceous diving beetle The Dytiscidae – based on the Greek ''dytikos'' (δυτικός), "able to dive" – are the predaceous diving beetles, a Family (biology), family of water beetles. They occur i ...

'', a diving beetle * '' darwini'' (multiple species) * '' darwinii'' (multiple species) * ''

Minervarya charlesdarwini ''Minervarya charlesdarwini'' (vernacular name: Charles Darwin's frog) is a species of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to the Andaman Islands, India, and is known from the South Andaman Island, Long Island, and North Andaman Is ...

'', a frog

Philosophies

Darwinism Darwinism is a scientific theory, theory of Biology, biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of smal ...

* Social Darwinism

Other

Darwin 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 ...

, a unit of evolutionary change *

, an operating system * Darwin (ESA) (a proposed satellite system) * Darwin Awards *

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 ...

* Darwin Prize *

Darwin fish The Ichthys symbol (or "Jesus fish") is a sign typically used to proclaim an affiliation with or affinity for Christianity. The fish was originally adopted by early Christians as a secret symbol, but the many variations known today first appeare ...

* Division of Darwin, a former electoral division in Australia *

1991 Darwin 1991 Darwin, provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 6 May 1967, by Argentine astronomers Carlos Cesco and Arnold Klemola at ...

, a stony Florian

asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere. ...

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 sout ...

a lunar crater *

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 ...

a martian crater * Darwinia (plant), species named not after Charles Darwin but his grandfather

Erasmus Darwin Erasmus Robert Darwin (12 December 173118 April 1802) was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor, and poet. His poems ...

References

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