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;Australia *
Camperdown, New South Wales Camperdown is an inner western suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Camperdown is located 4 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Inner West region. Camperdown lies across the ...
, a suburb of Sydney *
Camperdown, Victoria Camperdown () is a town in southwestern Victoria, Australia, west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 census, Camperdown had a population of 3,369. History The Djargurd Wurrung people were the traditional Aboriginal people of the Ca ...
, a town in Western Victoria **
Camperdown railway station Camperdown railway station is located on the Warrnambool line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Camperdown, and opened on 2 July 1883.
;Canada *
Camperdown Signal Station Camperdown Signal Station, also known as Camperdown Hill, is significant in Nova Scotia communication history. Overlooking the entrance to Halifax Harbour made it a strategic part of Halifax's defence system in the 18th century. The hill has been us ...
, operated 1797–1925, located on Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia ;England *
Camperdown, Tyne and Wear Camperdown is a village in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. Camperdown is just south of Burradon, and the two villages are closely linked. Both villages had coal mines. Until 1974 it was in Northumberland. Hi ...
, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside ;Netherlands *
Kamperduin Camperduin (Kamperduin) is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Bergen, and lies about 12 km northwest of Alkmaar. The hamlet was first mentioned between 918 and 948 Campthorpa. The current name ...
, a village in the province of North Holland, on the North Sea coast ;Scotland *
Camperdown, Dundee Camperdown is an area of Dundee, Scotland, best known for Camperdown Park, which is the largest park in the city. The name is Dutch in origin, being the English version of Camperduin, a village of the North Holland province (north of Haarlem) ...
, a suburb of Dundee ;South Africa *
Camperdown, KwaZulu-Natal Camperdown is a settlement in Umgungundlovu District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It is approximately 60 km by road northwest of Durban and 20 km southeast of Pietermaritzburg. It was laid out in 1865 on ...
, a town


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Battle of Camperdown The Battle of Camperdown (Dutch language, Dutch: ''Zeeslag bij Kamperduin'') was fought on 11 October 1797 between the Royal Navy's Commander-in-Chief, North Sea, North Sea Fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Adam Duncan and a ...
, a naval battle fought between the Dutch and British fleets in 1797 off the Dutch coast near Kamperduin * HMS ''Camperdown'', four ships of the Royal Navy named after the battle *
Camperdown Elm The Wych Elm cultivar ''Ulmus glabra'' 'Camperdownii', commonly known as the Camperdown Elm, was discovered about 1835–1840 (often mis-stated as '1640') as a young contorted elm (a sport) growing in the forest at Camperdown House, in Dun ...
(or "Weeping Elm"), a type of tree *
Camperdown Works Camperdown Works was a jute works in Dundee, Scotland, which covered around 30 acres and at one point employed almost 6,000 workers. It was for a time the world's largest jute works and was owned by Cox Brothers. History Origins The Cox family w ...
, a historic jute works in Dundee


See also

* The Ballad of the "Clampherdown", a satirical poem by Rudyard Kipling about a naval battle {{disambig, geo