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Darwin

 formerly Palmerston

Seaport (pop., 2006: city, 66,291; urban agglom., 105,991), capital of Northern Territory, Australia. Located on Port Darwin, a deep inlet of Clarence Strait in the Timor Sea, it has one of Australia's best harbours. The harbour was named in 1839 for Charles Darwin. The port, settled in 1869, was known as Palmerston until 1911. Located in a largely undeveloped region, Darwin is a supply and shipping centre for northern Australia. A military base in World War II, it was bombed by the Japanese in 1942, then extensively rebuilt. A cyclone in 1974 damaged or destroyed nearly all of the city; rebuilt a second time, it is now one of Australia's most modern cities.

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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston. 1784--1865, British statesman; foreign secretary (1830--34; 1835--41; 1846--51); prime minister (1855--58; 1859--65). His talent was for foreign affairs, in which he earned a reputation as a British nationalist and for high-handedness and gunboat diplomacy