Murchison

Murchison may refer to:

Geographical features

 * Lake Murchison, Tasmania, Australia
 * Mount Murchison (Tasmania), Australia
 * Murchison bioregion, a bioregion in Western Australia
 * Murchison Falls, Uganda
 * Murchison Glacier, New Zealand
 * Murchison Island, an island in Lake Nipigon, Ontario, Canada
 * Murchison Promontory, Canada
 * Murchison Range, Stauning Alps, Greenland
 * Murchison River (disambiguation)
 * Murchison Sound, Greenland

National parks

 * Iytwelepenty / Davenport Ranges National Park in Australia
 * Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda
 * Murchison Mountains, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand

Australia

 * Electoral district of Murchison-Eyre, a former state electorate of Western Australia
 * Electoral division of Murchison, an electorate in the Tasmanian Legislative Council
 * Murchison County, New South Wales
 * Murchison, Victoria
 * Shire of Murchison, a local government area in Western Australia
 * Murchison Settlement, within the Shire

South Africa

 * Murchison, KwaZulu-Natal
 * Murchison, Limpopo

Other places

 * Murchison, New Zealand
 * Murchison, Texas, United States

Science

 * Murchison Award, awarded by the Royal Geographical Society
 * The Murchison Fund, awarded by the Geological Society of London
 * Murchison Medal, awarded by the Geological Society of London
 * Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, a designated radio quiet zone in Western Australia.
 * Murchison Widefield Array, a radio telescope in Western Australia

Other uses

 * Murchison (crater), a crater on the Moon
 * Murchison Building in Wilmington, North Carolina
 * Murchison Highway, a road in Tasmania
 * Murchison letter, a political scandal in 1888 in U.S.
 * Murchison meteorite, which fell in 1969 near Murchison, Victoria, Australia
 * The Murchison Murders which occurred in the 1930s in the Murchison region of Western Australia
 * HMAS Murchison (K442), a warship of the Royal Australian Navy
 * In re Murchison, a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case during the Warren Court

People with the surname

 * Alice Lynne Murchison, maiden name of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
 * Carl Murchison (1887–1961), American psychologist
 * Charles Murchison (politician) (1872–1952), British politician
 * Charles Murchison (physician) (1830–1879), British physician
 * Charlotte Murchison (1788–1869), Scottish geologist
 * Christian Murchison (b. 1980), Singaporean racing driver
 * Clint Murchison Jr. (1923–1987), Texas businessman
 * Clint Murchison Sr. (1895–1969), Texas businessman
 * Ira Murchison (1933–1994), American athlete
 * Kenneth Murchison (1794–1854), British diplomat
 * Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison (1872–1938), American architect
 * Larrell Murchison (b. 1997), American football player
 * Loren Murchison (1898–1979), American athlete
 * Lucia Murchison (1900–1983), American social worker
 * Michael Murchison, Australian music producer
 * Roderick Murchison (1792–1871), Scottish geologist for whom most of the geographical features above are directly or indirectly named
 * Sally Fletcher-Murchison (b. 1933), American/Hawaiian ceramicist
 * Tim Murchison (1896–1962), American baseball player
 * William Murchison, American political columnist