Atalanta (disambiguation) explained

Atalanta is a heroine in Greek mythology.

Atalanta may also refer to:

Fauna

• Vanessa atalanta, a species of butterfly

Geography

• 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

• 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

Railway locomotives

• Atalanta, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

Automobiles

• 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

• 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

Ships

• , one of several mercantile vessels of that name
• HMS Atalanta, one of six ships in the British navy bearing this name

Yachts

• 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

• 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.

See also

• Atlanta, the largest city in the US state of Georgia
• Atalanti (disambiguation)
• Atalante (disambiguation)
  • Atlanta (disambiguation)
• Atlante (disambiguation)
• Atlantic (disambiguation)
• Atlantis (disambiguation)