Trivia: The Northern Territory’s capital city is named after which biologist?
Louis Pasteur
Gregor Mendel
Charles Darwin
Rachel Carson
The correct answer is Charles Darwin
So why is this answer correct? : The Northern Territory is located in north-central Australia. Its capital, Darwin, was founded as a port city in 1839, and was eventually named after famed scientist Charles Darwin in 1911. The city’s founder, John Stokes, was a surveyor who was onboard the HMS Beagle — the ship Darwin took to South America, a trip that played a crucial role in his theory of evolution by natural selection.