Mount Darwin is a town in Mount Darwin District, Mashonaland Central Province, in north-eastern Zimbabwe, about 160 kilometres by road northeast of Harare. It houses the Mount Darwin Town Council and the district administration, a public district hospital and the Karanda Mission Hospital, and it is served by Mount Darwin Airport. It is the probable site of some of the earliest European missionary work in southern Africa, by the Portuguese Jesuit Gonçalo da Silveira, who arrived in 1560 and was killed near the town in March 1561. The hunter and explorer Frederick Courtney Selous named it after the naturalist Charles Darwin.
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1. CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive): The World Factbook archive: Zimbabwe
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive)Geography, CoastlineQuote, Geography, Coastline
0 km (landlocked)
2. IANA Time Zone Database: tz database zone1970.tab
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone line for ZimbabweQuote, Zone line for Zimbabwe
MZ,BI,BW,CD,MW,RW,ZM,ZW -2558+03235 Africa/Maputo Central Africa Time
Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe (Wikipedia)
Part Of: Zimbabwe, LeadQuote, Part Of: Zimbabwe, Lead
is a town in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (Wikipedia)
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is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa
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