Atalanta (disambiguation)
Appearance
Atalanta is a heroine in Greek mythology.
Atalanta may also refer to:
Fauna
[edit]- Vanessa atalanta, a species of butterfly
Geography
[edit]- Atalanta (island), an island in the Opuntian Gulf in Greece
- Atalanti Island (Attica), an island in the Saronic Gulf in Greece also known as Atalanta
- Atalanta (Macedon), a town of ancient Macedon
- Atalanta (Santa Catarina), a town in Brazil
- Lake Atalanta, a manmade lake in Rogers, Arkansas
Sport
[edit]- Atalanta B.C., an Italian association football club
- Atalanta Mozzanica Calcio Femminile Dilettantistico, an Italian women association football club. It was sponsored by Atalanta B.C.
- Huddersfield Atalanta Ladies F.C., 1920s English women's football team
Vehicles
[edit]Railway locomotives
[edit]- Atalanta, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
Automobiles
[edit]- Atalanta (1915 automobile), a British car made from 1915 to 1917
- Atalanta (1936 automobile), a touring model of the British Armstrong Siddeley
- Atalanta (1937 automobile), a British sports car made between 1937 and 1939
- Atalanta Motors, British sports car company relaunched in 2012
- Bugatti Atalante, a sports car made from 1936 to 1938
Aircraft
[edit]- Fairey N.4 (Atalanta) Prototype of the Fairey N.4 class of flying boat
- Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta (A.W. 15), a British aircraft of the 1930s manufactured by Armstrong Whitworth
- Lockheed P-38 Lightning, known as the Lockheed Atalanta in design, a World War II era fighter plane
Vessels
[edit]Ships
[edit]- Atalanta, one of several mercantile vessels of that name
- HMS Atalanta, one of six ships in the British navy bearing this name
Yachts
[edit]- Fairey Atalanta, a class of sailing yacht built by Fairey Marine Ltd, variants 20, 26, and 30 feet overall
- Atalanta (1883), a steam yacht owned by Jay Gould, later a gunboat of the Venezuelan Navy and for a short time of the German Imperial Navy
Other uses
[edit]- Atalanta, a character in George Frideric Handel's opera Serse (also known as Xerxes)
- Atalanta (opera), an opera by George Frideric Handel
- Atalanta (Pantheon), a member of the Pantheon, a fictional group from Marvel Comics
- Atalanta (magazine) (1887–1898), a British literary magazine for girls
- Atalanta (sculpture), a sculpture by Francis Derwent Wood
- Operation Atalanta, an EU naval mission
- Atalanta Ltd, a British women's engineering company operating between 1920 and 1928
- Atalanta, sister of Perdiccas, general of Alexander the Great, and wife of Attalus. After Perdiccas was murdered by his mutinous officers, the rest of his family, including Atalanta, were put to death as well
- Ediciones Atalanta, Spanish publishing house
See also
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