Camperdown
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Australia
  • Camperdown, New South Wales
    Camperdown, New South Wales
    Camperdown is an inner-city 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...

    , a suburb of Sydney
  • Camperdown, Victoria
    Camperdown, Victoria
    Camperdown is an historically significant rural town in southwestern Victoria, Australia, south west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Camperdown had a population of 3,165.-History:...

    , a rural township


England
  • Camperdown, Tyne and Wear, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside


Netherlands
  • Kamperduin, a village in the province of North Holland, on the North Sea coast


Scotland
  • Camperdown, Dundee
    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 Kamperduin, a village of the North Holland province on the North Sea coast of the Netherlands...

    , a suburb of Dundee


South Africa
  • Camperdown, KwaZulu-Natal, a town

Other uses

  • The Battle of Camperdown
    Battle of Camperdown
    The Battle of Camperdown was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797 between a Royal Navy fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Dutch Navy fleet under Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter...

    , a naval battle fought between the Dutch and British fleets in 1797 off the Dutch coast near Kamperduin
  • HMS Camperdown
    HMS Camperdown
    Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Camperdown after the Battle of Camperdown in 1797: was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line, previously the Dutch Jupiter. She was captured at the Battle of Camperdown in 1797 and was sold in 1817....

    , four ships of the Royal Navy named after the battle
  • The Camperdown Elm
    Camperdown Elm
    The Camperdown Elm Ulmus glabra Camperdownii is a cultivar which cannot reproduce from seed. Although still classed as a cultivar of U. glabra, the tree was considered a nothomorph of U. × hollandica var. vegeta by Green , not U...

    (or "Weeping Elm"), a type of tree
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