Camperdown
Appearance
Camperdown may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Australia
- Camperdown, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
- Camperdown, Victoria, a town in Western Victoria
- Canada
- Camperdown Signal Station, operated 1797–1925, located on Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia
- 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, a suburb of Dundee
- South Africa
- Camperdown, KwaZulu-Natal, a town
Other uses
[edit]- Battle of Camperdown, 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 (or "Weeping Elm"), a type of tree
- Camperdown Works, a historic jute works in Dundee
See also
[edit]- The Ballad of the "Clampherdown", a satirical poem by Rudyard Kipling about a naval battle