Darwin Harbour

Darwin Harbour from East Point

Mouth of the Elizabeth River in the Darwin Harbour

Darwin Harbour is an estuary -like bay in Darwin, capital of Australia's Northern Territory. In the west it opens at the line leading from Charles Point in the west to Lee Point in the east in the Beagle Gulf. He is the Clarence Strait and connected via these with the Van Diemen Gulf.

The bay was named after the naturalist Charles Darwin, who sailed with Robert Fitzroy on the HMS Beagle parts of Australia. However, Darwin and Fitzroy in 1836 sailed from King George Sound (Western Australia) directly to the Cocos Islands to the south coast of Java and from there via Cape Town back to England. They stayed away from Port Darwin so about 3000 nautical miles and could not know of its existence.