Carnarvon

Carnarvon and Caernarvon are older forms of the name of the town in North Wales currently known as Caernarfon. The older names, in place for centuries, were anglicised phonetic spellings; since the 1970s the Welsh spelling has been generally adopted. Most places and things named after Caernarfon use one of the older spellings.

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 (Australia)
• 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
• Carnarvon County, Western Australia

Canada

• Caernarvon (Edmonton), residential neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta
• Carnarvon Elementary School, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Carnarvon (Ontario), Hamlet in Minden Hills, Haliburton County, Ontario

Hong Kong

• Carnarvon Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon

Malaysia

• Carnarvon Street or Lebuh Carnarvon, Penang

New Zealand

• Carnarvon, former name of the small town of Himatangi

South Africa

• Carnarvon, Northern Cape, town in the Karoo region
  • Carnarvon Airport (South Africa)

United Kingdom (Wales)

• Caernarfon, town in Gwynedd, north-west Wales
  • Caernarfon Airport
  • Caernarfon Castle, castle constructed by King Edward I of England
  • Caernarvon railway station (closed 1970, originally spelled "Carnarvon")
  • Caernarfon railway station (opened 1997)
  • Caernarfon Town F.C., football team in the League of Wales
  • CR Caernarfon, rugby union team in the Welsh Rugby Union Division Four North League
• 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

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

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), financed the excavations which discovered 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)

Ships

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

Other

• Carnarvonshire Railway
• Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, 1945
• Caernarvon tank, a developmental UK heavy tank of 1952
• Carnarvonia, plant genus in the Proteaceae family