Darwin may refer to:

Common meanings

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English Natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all speci ...

(1809–1882), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection *

Darwin, Northern Territory Darwin ( Larrakia: ') is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. The city has nearly 53% of the Northern Territory's population, with 139,902 at the 2021 census. It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australi ...

, a capital city in Australia, named after the naturalist

Arts and entertainment

* ''Darwin'' (1920 film), a German silent film * ''Darwin'' (2011 film), a documentary * ''Darwin'' (2015 film), a science fiction film by Alain Desrochers * Darwin (''seaQuest DSV''), a dolphin in the TV series ''seaQuest DSV'' * ''

Darwin! ''Darwin!'' is the second studio album by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso and the second album they released in 1972. It was recorded and released in 1972 on the Ricordi label. The album is a concept album that covers Darwin's theory of evolution and th ...

'', a 1972 album by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso * '' Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist'', a 1991 biography of Charles Darwin * Darwin (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics fictional superhero associated with the X-Men *

Darwin Watterson The ''Amazing World of Gumball'' characters appear in the British-American animated sitcom ''The Amazing World of Gumball''. The series revolves around the daily life of 12-year-old cat Gumball Watterson and his family—adoptive brother Darwi ...

, a character from the 2011 animated TV series ''The Amazing World of Gumball''

Computing

Darwin (ADL) Darwin is an architecture description language (ADL). It can be used in a software engineering context to describe the organisation of a piece of software in terms of components, their interfaces and the bindings between components. References S ...

, an architecture description language *

Darwin (operating system) Darwin is the core Unix-like operating system of macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed as an independent open-source software, open-source operating system, first released by Apple Inc. in 20 ...

, the Unix base for Apple's iOS and macOS operating systems *

Darwin (programming game) Darwin was a programming game invented in August 1961 by Victor A. Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and M. Douglas McIlroy. (Dennis Ritchie is sometimes incorrectly cited as a co-author, but was not involved.) The game was developed at Bell Labs, ...

Darwin (programming language) Darwin is a closed source programming language developed by Gaston Gonnet and colleagues at ETH Zurich. It is used to develop the OMA orthology inference software, which was also initially developed by Gonnet. The language backend consists of th ...

Darwin Information Typing Architecture The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) specification defines a set of document types for authoring and organizing topic-oriented information, as well as a set of mechanisms for combining, extending, and constraining document types. It ...

Darwin Streaming Server Darwin Streaming Server (DSS) was the first open sourced Real-time Transport Protocol, RTP/Real Time Streaming Protocol, RTSP streaming server. It was released March 16, 1999 and is a fully featured Real Time Streaming Protocol, RTSP/Real-time T ...

People

* Darwin (given name), including a list of people with the name *

Darwin (surname) Darwin is a surname that is a modern spelling of Old English name . Notable people with the surname include: *Members of Charles Darwin's family: ** Anne Darwin (1841–1851), daughter of Charles Darwin (1809–1882) ** Bernard Darwin (1876–196 ...

, including a list of people with the name

Places

Antarctica

Darwin Glacier (Antarctica) The Darwin Glacier () is a large glacier in Antarctica. It flows from the polar plateau eastward between the Darwin Mountains and the Cook Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf. The Darwin and its major tributary the Hatherton are often treated as one ...

, Oates Land *

Darwin Mountains The Darwin Mountains () are a group of mountains between the Darwin Glacier and Hatherton Glacier in Antarctica. They were discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for Major Leonard Darwin, at that time Honora ...

, Oates Land *

Mount Darwin (Antarctica) Buckley Island () is an island-like mountain massif, surmounted by the peaks of Mount Bartlett, Mount Buckley and Mount Bowers, rising above the ice at the middle of the head of Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica. It was discovered by the British ...

, Ross Dependency

Australia

Northern Territory

Darwin River, Northern Territory Darwin River is an outer suburban area in Darwin. The name of the locality derived from the Darwin River which flows through the locality.

City of Darwin The City of Darwin is a local government area of the Northern Territory, Australia. It includes the central business district of the capital, Darwin City, and represents two-thirds of its metropolitan population. Located on the traditional la ...

Division of Darwin The Division of Darwin was an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania. The division was created in 1903 and abolished in 1955, west coast Tasmania locations at the last election held whe ...

, a 1903–1955 election division

Tasmania

Darwin, Tasmania *''See also the Australian federal electoral Division of Darwin (1903–1955) for the electoral division now known as Division of Braddon'' Darwin was a surveyed and short-lived community at the eastern side of Mount Darwin on the West Coast ...

, a short-lived community *

Mount Darwin (Tasmania) Mount Darwin is a mountain located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. With an elevation of above sea level, the mountain is situated on the West Coast Range. On the eastern side of the mountain is Darwin, a long-abandoned to ...

Darwin Crater Darwin Crater is a suspected meteorite impact crater in Western Tasmania about south of Queenstown, just within the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park. The crater is expressed as a rimless circular flat-floored depression, in diame ...

, a suspected meteorite impact crater

Chile

Cordillera Darwin The Cordillera Darwin is an extensive mountain range mantled by an ice field that is located in Chile. Description Cordillera Darwin is located in the southwestern portion of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, entirely within the Chilean territor ...

, Tierra del Fuego, a mountain range *

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. It is 2,438 m (7,999 ft) high. Monte Darwin was for a long time ...

Darwin Channel The Darwin Channel forms a westward continuation of the Aisén Fjord and links it to the Pacific Ocean at Isquiliac Island. It is located in the coast of Chile at approximately 45.4° south latitude. This is one of the main channels situated betw ...

Darwin Sound The Darwin Sound is an expanse of seawater which forms a westward continuation of the Beagle Channel and links it to the Pacific Ocean at Londonderry Island and Stewart Island, not far from the southern tip of South America. It thus forms a navig ...

* Darwin Glacier (Chile)

United States

Darwin, California Darwin is an unincorporated area, unincorporated mining community and Census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States. It is located southeast of Keeler, California, Keeler. The population was 36 at the 2020 census, down from ...

, an unincorporated community * Darwin Falls, a waterfall in California *

Darwin Township, Clark County, Illinois Darwin Township is located along the Wabash River in eastern Clark County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 347 and it contained 148 housing units. The township was named for the village of Darwin, which was named for the ...

** Darwin, Illinois, an unincorporated community in the township * Darwin, Minnesota, a city in Meeker County *

Darwin, Ohio Darwin is a small unincorporated community in central Bedford Township, Meigs County, Ohio, in the United States. It is located along U.S. Route 33 between Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns i ...

, an unincorporated community * Darwin, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community * Darwin, Texas, a ghost town * Darwin, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Darwin Township, Meeker County, Minnesota *

Mount Darwin (California) Mount Darwin is a flat-topped mountain in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada, on the border of between Fresno County, California, Fresno and Inyo County, California, Inyo counties in Kings Canyon National Park and the John Muir Wilderness of ...

** Darwin Glacier (California), on Mount Darwin

Elsewhere

Darwin (ward) Darwin is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Bromley. The ward has existed since the creation of the borough on 1 April 1965 and was first used in the 1964 elections. It returns one councillor to Bromley London Borough Council. To date, ...

, an electoral ward in Greater London * Darwin, Río Negro, Argentina, a municipality *

Darwin, Falkland Islands Darwin is a settlement in Lafonia on East Falkland, Falkland Islands, lying on Choiseul Sound, on the east side of the island's central isthmus, north of Goose Green. It was known occasionally (and still is from time to time) as Port Darwin. ...

, a settlement *

Darwin Island Darwin Island () is an isolated northern member of the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador, the uppermost extent of an Volcano#Extinct, extinct volcano. It has an area of and reaches height above mean sea level, above sea level. Visits to the i ...

, Galapagos Islands *

Volcán Darwin Volcán Darwin is a large shield volcano on Isabela Island in the Galápagos Islands. It was named after the naturalist Charles Darwin and is located between Volcán Wolf and Volcán Alcedo; part of the World Heritage Site designated area. The v ...

, Galapagos Islands, a volcano * Darwin Glacier (Kenya), on Mount Kenya * Mount Darwin (New Zealand) * Darwin Glacier (New Zealand), Canterbury

Science

Darwin (unit) The darwin (d) is a unit of evolutionary change, defined by J. B. S. Haldane in 1949. J.B.S. Haldane (1949).Suggestions as to quantitative measurement of rates of evolution" ''Evolution'' 3:51–56. One darwin is defined to be an e-fold (about ...

, a unit of evolutionary change *

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 ...

, awarded by the Royal Society for biology * The Darwin Centre, Natural History Museum, London * Darwin Initiative, a British government biodiversity programme *

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

, a main-belt asteroid * Darwin (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 capital city in Australia, ...

Darwin (spacecraft) Darwin was a suggested ESA Cornerstone mission which would have involved a constellation of four to nine spacecraft designed to directly detect Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars and search for evidence of life on these planets. The most ...

, a European Space Agency project

Sport

Darwin Baseball League Established in 1953, the Darwin Baseball Association and latterly Darwin Baseball League (DBL) is the governing body of amateur baseball in Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory. The DBL is governed by Baseball NT and ultimately, ...

, a North Australian league *

Darwin Rugby League The Darwin Rugby League is a former rugby league competition based in Darwin, Northern Territory. The competition is administered by the Northern Territory Rugby League which is the body that takes care of the league's affairs. It administered the c ...

, a North Australian league

Transport

Darwin Airline Darwin Airline SA was a Switzerland, Swiss regional airline with its head office in Bioggio, Lugano flying under the brand name Adria Airways Switzerland. It operated scheduled domestic and international services in some western European countri ...

, an airline in Switzerland *

Darwin International Airport Darwin International Airport is a domestic and international airport serving Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. It is the eleventh busiest airport in Australia measured by passenger movements, with almost 2 million passengers travelli ...

, Darwin, Australia

Other uses

* Darwin (monkey), a rhesus macaque colloquially referred to as the "Ikea Monkey" * Darwin College (disambiguation) *

Darwin Awards The Darwin Awards are a rhetorical tongue-in-cheek honor that originated in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly Culling, contributed to human evolution by natural selection, selecting thems ...

, tongue-in-cheek awards for people who remove themselves from reproducing through their stupidity * Darwin Brewery, based in North Shields, England * Darwin Centre (disambiguation) *

Bombing of Darwin The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. On that day, 242 Empire of Japan, Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, attacked the ...

, also known as the Battle of Darwin, a 1942 Japanese aerial attack on Australia