Cockburn may refer to:

People

* Cockburn (surname), a surname of Scottish origin

Places

Australia

City of Cockburn The City of Cockburn ( ) is a local government area in the southern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth about south of Fremantle and about south of Perth's central business district. The City covers an area of and had a po ...

, Local Government Area of Western Australia, named after Admiral

Sir George Cockburn Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet, (22 April 1772 – 19 August 1853) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a captain, he was present at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in February 1797 during the French Revolutionary ...

* Electoral district of Cockburn, seat in the Western Australian parliament *

Cockburn, South Australia Cockburn ( ) is a town and locality in the east of the Australian state of South Australia immediately adjacent to the border with New South Wales near Broken Hill. It was established because the New South Wales government refused to allow loco ...

, a locality on the NSW-SA state border * Cockburn River, tributary of the Namoi River, NSW * Cockburn Central, Western Australia, in the southern suburbs of Perth *

Cockburn Sound Cockburn Sound () is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Western Australia. It extends from the south of the mouth of the Swan River at Fremantle for about to Point Peron near Rockingham. The total area of the sound is about . It ...

, an inlet in Western Australia

Canada

Cockburn Island (Ontario) Cockburn Island is an island and Township (Canada)#Ontario, township municipality in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario, located in the Manitoulin District. It is separated from the westernmost point of Manitoul ...

, a island in Lake Huron * Cape Cockburn (Nunavut), a cape at the southern end of Bathurst Island in Nunavut * Cockburn River (Nunavut), a river in north-central

Baffin Island Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second-largest island in the Americas (behind Greenland), and the fifth-largest island in the world. Its area is (slightly smal ...

in Nunavut

Caribbean

* Cockburn Gardens, a district in the eastern part of

Kingston, Jamaica Kingston is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long spit (landform), sand spit which connects the town of Por ...

* Cockburn Harbour, a settlement in the Turks and Caicos Islands * Cockburn Town, the capital city of the Turks and Caicos Islands * Cockburn Town, Bahamas on

San Salvador Island San Salvador Island, previously Watling's Island, is an islands of the Bahamas, island and districts of The Bahamas, district of The Bahamas, famed for being the probable location of Christopher Columbus's first landing of the Americas on 12 Oc ...

in the Bahamas, named after Sir Francis Cockburn

Other places

Cockburn Island (Antarctica) Cockburn Island is an oval island long, consisting of a high plateau with steep slopes surmounted on the northwest side by a pyramidal peak high, lying in the north-east entrance to Admiralty Sound, south of the north-east end of the Antarctic ...

* Cockburn Island (Polynesia), the name given by the British to Fangataufa atoll in

French Polynesia French Polynesia ( ; ; ) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole #Governance, overseas country. It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over more than in the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean. The t ...

* Cockburn School, a secondary school in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England * Cockburn Channel, a 64 km long sea channel in

Tierra del Fuego Tierra del Fuego (, ; Spanish for "Land of Fire", rarely also Fireland in English) is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South America, South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of the main is ...

Other uses

* Cockburn Collection, a collection of

tartan Tartan or plaid ( ) is a patterned cloth consisting of crossing horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours, forming repeating symmetrical patterns known as ''setts''. Originating in woven wool, tartan is most strongly associated wi ...

patterns * Cockburn's Port, a brand of port wine produced by Symington Family Estates