Camperdown is a settlement in Umgungundlovu District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

It was laid out in 1865 on the farm Camperdown, which was named to commemorate the victory of the British navy under Admiral Adam Duncan over the Dutch fleet under Admiral Jan Willem de Winter in October 1797.

[2] In the early 1840s, John Vanderplank's ship, the Louisa, arrived in Durban.

It was named after his fiancée who refused to leave England to live as a married couple in Tasmania.

He planted black wattle as a windbreak but they flourished to the point where they were trees rather than shrubs.