Birkenhead (disambiguation)
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- The most famous Birkenhead is a town on the Wirral peninsula in Northwest England.
People:
- F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, Lord Chancellor 1919–22, etc.
- Subsequent earls, see Earl of Birkenhead
Places:
- Birkenhead, a suburb in North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand.
- Birkenhead, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide
- Birkenhead Point, a point in Sydney, Australia
- Birkenhead Point Factory Outlet Centre, a shopping centre in Sydney, Australia
- Birkenhead Rock near Stanford, Western Cape, South Africa.
- Birkenhead Lake, the Birkenhead River and Birkenhead Lake Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada, as well as the nearby community of Birken. All of these derive their own names from the naming of Mount Birkenhead by HBC explorer Alexander Caulfield Anderson, who had a friend who died aboard the HMS Birkenhead.
Other:
- The Birkenhead Drill refers to a famous incident during the sinking of the ship HMS Birkenhead.