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Hobart

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Hobart

  1. The capital city of Tasmania, Australia, named for a Lord Hobart.
    • 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chatto & Windus (2014), page 331:
      It was one of those Hobart spring nights, cold as charity, snow coming down hard on the mountain, the harbour a lather, sleet slapping and scratching at windows and tin roofs like a wild drunk who’s been locked out.
    • 2025 October 14, Ima Caldwell, “Cold calling: Australian Antarctic Program seeks hundreds of workers ready for polar-powered adventure”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      New recruits receive extensive training in Hobart, typically for about three months.
  2. A patronymic English surname transferred from the given name derived from a variant of Hubert.
  3. A number of places in the United States:
    1. A city and township in Lake County, Indiana.
    2. An unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana.
    3. An unincorporated community in Clam Lake Township, Wexford County, Michigan.
    4. A township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
    5. A ghost town in Lincoln County, Missouri, named after Garret Hobart.
    6. A village in the town of Stamford, Delaware County, New York.
    7. A township in Barnes County, North Dakota.
    8. A city, the county seat of Kiowa County, Oklahoma, named after Garret Hobart.
    9. A census-designated place in King County, Washington (state).
    10. A village in Brown County, Wisconsin, named after John Henry Hobart.

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