Sturt may refer to:
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Sturt (surname) Sturt, as a surname, may refer to:
* Charles Sturt
Charles Napier Sturt (28 April 1795 – 16 June 1869) was a British officer and explorer of Australia, and part of the European land exploration of Australia, European exploration of Australia. ...
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Sturt (biology) In embryology, sturt is a measure of distance. On the fate map, the further apart two regions are, the more likely the resulting structures are to form different genotypes. A difference of 1% in the ratio of differing genotypes is described as one ...
, a unit of measurement in embryology named for Alfred Sturtevant
Places and things named after Charles Sturt, a British explorer of Australia, include:
Australia
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Sturt Highway
Sturt Highway is an Australian national highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. It is an important road link for the transport of passengers and freight between Sydney and Adelaide and the regions along the route.
Initiall ...
, a national highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia.
New South Wales
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Sturt National Park
The Sturt National Park is a protected national park that is located in the arid far north-western corner of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The national park is situated approximately northwest of Sydney and the nearest town is , aw ...
, New South Wales
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Charles Sturt University
Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus public university located in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory and Victoria, Australia, Victoria. Established in 1989, it was named in honour of Captain (British Army and Royal ...
, a university in Wagga Wagga
Queensland
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Sturt, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Boulia
South Australia
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Sturt, South Australia
Sturt is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Marion local government area. It was named after the explorer Captain Charles Sturt.
Sturt is in the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Gibson and the Australian House of Repre ...
, a suburb of Adelaide
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Sturt Football Club
The Sturt Football Club, nicknamed The Double Blues, is a semi-professional Australian rules football club based in the suburb of Unley, South Australia, which plays in the South Australian National Football League.
Founded in 1901 by the Stur ...
, an Australian Rules Football club
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Sturt Cricket Club
The Sturt Cricket Club (formerly the Unley Cricket Club) is a semi-professional cricket club in Adelaide, South Australia. It competes in the South Australian Grade Cricket League, which is administered by the South Australian Cricket Association ...
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Sturt River, Adelaide
The Sturt River, also known as the Sturt Creek and ''Warri Parri'' (''Warriparri'') in the Kaurna language, is a river located in the Adelaide region of the Australian state of South Australia.
Course and features
The Sturt River rises in Upp ...
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Sturt Street, Adelaide
Sturt Street is a street in the south-western sector of the centre of Adelaide, South Australia. It runs east–west between West Terrace to King William Street, passing through Whitmore Square. After crossing King William Street, it continue ...
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City of Charles Sturt
The City of Charles Sturt is a local government area in the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, stretching to the coast.
The council was formed on 1 January 1997 as a result of the amalgamation of the City of Hindmarsh Woodville and ...
, a city
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Point Sturt
Point Sturt is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Sturt Peninsula on the west side of Lake Alexandrina about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about east of the municipal seat of Goolwa.
It is ...
, a town
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Division of Sturt
The Division of Sturt is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in South Australia. It was proclaimed at the South Australian redistribution of 11 May 1949. Sturt was named for Captain Charles St ...
, a federal electoral district in South Australia
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Electoral district of Sturt (New South Wales)
Sturt was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales in the Broken Hill area. It was a single member electorate from 1889 to 1920.
Members for Sturt
History
Prior to 1889 Broken Hill was part ...
, former New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate
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Electoral district of Sturt (South Australia)
Sturt (The Sturt until 1875) was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It was named after the explorer Charles Sturt.
Sturt was one of the initial districts in the first parliament. It was i ...
, former South Australian House of Assembly electorate
See also
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Stuart (disambiguation)
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