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Carnarvon and Caernarvon are forms of the name Caernarfon which are no longer used for the town in north Wales, but remain in use in other contexts. The first two forms are in English orthography and the third is the Welsh spelling, adopted in English since the 1970s. Most places and things named after Caernarfon use one of the former spellings.

Places

Australia

Queensland

Carnarvon Range
Carnarvon Highway, state highway
Carnarvon National Park
- Carnarvon Gorge
Carnarvon Park, Queensland, a locality in the Central Highlands Region
Carnarvon Station Reserve

South Australia

County of Carnarvon (South Australia), a cadastral unit of land administration on Kangaroo Island

Western Australia

Carnarvon (biogeographic region), IBRA region
Carnarvon, Western Australia, coastal town
- Carnarvon Airport (Australia)
Carnarvon County, Western Australia
Carnarvon Range (Western Australia)
Carnarvon Tracking Station
Carnarvon xeric shrublands, deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion
OTC Earth Station Carnarvon
Shire of Carnarvon, local government area

Canada

Caernarvon (Edmonton), residential neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta
Carnarvon Elementary School, Vancouver, British Columbia
Carnarvon (Ontario), hamlet in Minden Hills, Haliburton County, Ontario
Mount Carnarvon, Yoho National Park, Kootenay Land District, British Columbia

Hong Kong

Carnarvon Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon

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 (Welsh Highland Railway, opened 1997)
- Carnarvon (Pant) railway station a temporary terminus on the town's southern outskirts in the late 1860s
- Carnarvon (Morfa) railway station a temporary terminus on the town's southern edge in the late 1860s
- Carnarvon Castle railway station, northern passenger terminus of the Nantlle Railway in the mid-nineteenth century
- 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 historic counties of Wales

United States of America

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)
- James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (1673–1744)
- 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, launched 1945

Other

Carnarvonshire Railway
1945 Caernarvon Boroughs by-election
Caernarvon tank, a developmental UK heavy tank of 1952
Carnarvonia (disambiguation)

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