Carnarvon

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Carnarvon and Caernarvon are anglicised forms of the name of the Welsh town Caernarfon. The anglicised spellings have become largely obsolete in Wales since the 1970s, but persist elsewhere. The name may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Ships 4 Other

[edit] Places

Australia

• Carnarvon Highway, state highway of Queensland
• Carnarvon National Park, Queensland
  • Carnarvon Gorge
• Carnarvon Station Reserve, Queensland
• Carnarvon, Western Australia, coastal town in Western Australia
  • Carnarvon Airport
• Carnarvon Tracking Station, Western Australia
• OTC Earth Station Carnarvon, Western Australia
• Carnarvon (biogeographic region), IBRA region in Western Australia
• Carnarvon xeric shrublands, deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion of Western Australia
• Shire of Carnarvon, Western Australian local government area

Canada

• Caernarvon (Edmonton), residential neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta
• Carnarvon Elementary School, Vancouver, British Columbia

New Zealand

• Former name of the small town of Himatangi

South Africa

• Carnarvon, South Africa, town in Northern Cape Province

United Kingdom

• Caernarfon, town in Gwynedd, north-west Wales
  • Caernarfon Airport
  • Caernarfon Castle, castle constructed by King Edward I of England
  • Caernarfon railway station
  • Caernarfon railway station (L&NWR)
  • Caernarfon Town F.C., soccer team in the League of Wales
  • CR Caernarfon, rugby union team in the Welsh Rugby Union Division Four North League
  • The Oval (Caernarfon)
• Caernarfon Bay, inlet of the Irish Sea defined by the Llŷn peninsula and Anglesey
• Caernarfon (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
• Caernarfon (UK Parliament constituency)
• Caernarfonshire, also spelt Caernarvonshire or Carnarvonshire, one of thirteen former counties of Wales

United States of America

• Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
• Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
• Caernarvon, Louisiana

[edit] People

• Earl of Carnarvon, a title created more than once
  • Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (1610-1643)
  • Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (1632-1709)
  • Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (1741-1811)
  • Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (1772-1833)
  • Henry Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon (1800-1849)
  • Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831-1890)
  • George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923), discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb
  • Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon (1898-1987)
  • Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon (1924-2001)
  • George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (born 1956)

[edit] Ships

• HMS Carnarvon (1903), Royal Navy cruiser
• HMS Carnarvon Bay (K630), Royal Navy frigate

[edit] Other

• Carnarvonshire Railway
• Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, 1945