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Avalon (disambiguation)

Avalon is an island in the Arthurian legend.

Avalon may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

Film and television

Games

  • Avalon The 3D Adventure Movie, a 1984 video game
  • Avalon (MUD), a text-based online game series
  • Avalon, a King Arthur-themed variant to the game The Resistance
  • Avalon, a major Terraria content mod
  • Exxo Avalon, a remaster of the Avalon mod for Terraria

Literature

  • Avalon (novel), a 1965 novel by Anya Seton
  • Avalon Series, a series of novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Avalon: Web of Magic, a series of children's fantasy novels by the American author Rachel Roberts

Music

Bands

  • Avalon (Finnish band), a Finnish metal opera project
  • Avalon (American group), a contemporary Christian music group
  • Avalon (Swedish group), a musical duo made up of the Swedish-Congolese brothers Djo and Mohombi Moupondo

Albums

Songs

  • "Avalon" (Al Jolson song) (1920)
  • "Avalon" (Roxy Music song) (1982)
  • "Avalon", a 1999 song by Sigur Rós from Ágætis byrjun
  • "Avalon", a 1999 song by Blackmore's Night from Under a Violet Moon
  • "Avalon" a 2005 song by Juliet Richardson
  • "Avalon" (Lovebugs song) (2006)
  • "Avalon", a 2010 song by Bad Religion from The Dissent of Man
  • "Avalon" (Professor Green song) (2011)
  • "Avalon", a 2013 song by Taku Iwasaki from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency
  • "Avalon", a 2014 song by Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators from World on Fire
  • "Avalon", a 2014 song by Gamma Ray from Empire of the Undead
  • "Avalon", a 2017 song by Foxygen from Hang

Businesses

  • Avalon Books, a New York-based book publishing imprint (1950-2012), purchased by Amazon.com
  • Avalon Guitars, a Northern Ireland guitar manufacturer
  • Avalon Hill, an American game company that specializes in wargames and strategic board games
  • Avalon Hotel, in Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Avalon Hotel (Beverly Hills), in California, US
  • Avalon Hotel (Rochester, Minnesota), US
  • Avalon Interactive, a defunct video game distribution company
  • Avalon Mall, St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
  • Avalon Publishing Group (1994–2007), a New York publisher, absorbed by Perseus Books Group
  • Avalon Rare Metals, a mineral development company focused on rare metal deposits in Canada
  • Avalon Studios, a film and television studio, located in Avalon, New Zealand
  • Avalon Waterways, an American ship and river cruise line owned by Globus
  • Chateau Avalon, Kansas City, Kansas, US, a luxury hotel and bed and breakfast
  • Radio Avalon, a pirate radio station near Glastonbury, England in 1983, later a legally recognised station

People

  • Frankie Avalon (born 1940), American actor, singer, and former teen idol born Francis Thomas Avallone
  • Mickey Avalon, American rapper Yeshe Perl (born 1975)
  • Sakura Avalon, the Cardcaptors name for the titular Cardcaptor Sakura fictional character, Sakura Kinomoto
  • Whitney Avalon, American YouTuber
  • Avalon Roberts (born 1945), Canadian psychiatrist and political activist

Places

Australia

Canada

United States

  • The Avalon (Birmingham, Alabama), or "The Avalon", apartment buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
  • Avalon, California, the only city on Santa Catalina Island
  • Avalon, Delaware, an unincorporated community
  • Avalon State Park, North Hutchinson Island, Florida
  • Avalon, Georgia, a town
  • Avalon (Alpharetta, Georgia), a planned mixed-use development
  • Avalon (New Windsor, Maryland), a historic home listed on the NRHP
  • Avalon, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
  • Avalon, Missouri, an unincorporated community
  • Mount Avalon, New Hampshire
  • Avalon Dam, on the Pecos River near Carlsbad, New Mexico
  • Avalon, New Jersey, a barrier island resort community
  • Avalon, North Carolina, an abandoned mill town
  • Avalon, Pennsylvania, a borough
  • Avalon, Texas, an unincorporated community
  • Avalon, Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Avalon, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

Other places

Technology

Transportation

  • Avalon Boulevard, a north–south thoroughfare in Los Angeles County
  • Avalon (Los Angeles Metro station), on the Metro Green Line
  • Avalon (RTA Rapid Transit station), a station stop on the RTA Blue Line in Cleveland, Ohio
  • Belle of Louisville or Avalon, a steamboat based in Louisville, Kentucky
  • Independence Avalon, a German paraglider design
  • SS Avalon (1891), a ship purchased by William Wrigley Jr in 1920 that sank in 1964
  • Toyota Avalon, a sedan car produced from 1994
  • Toyota Avalon (concept), a concept car introduced at the 1991 Tokyo Auto Show
  • USS Avalon (1908), a motorboat acquired for use as a patrol boat in 1917
  • USS Blue Ridge (ID-2432) or USS Avalon, a steamer in commission from 1918 to 1919
  • DSRV-2 Avalon, a deep submergence rescue vehicle launched in 1971 and decommissioned in 2000

Other uses

  • Avalon Historico-Geographical Society, based in Karaganda, Kazakhstan
  • Avalon Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
  • Avalon School (disambiguation)
  • Avalon Foundation, founded by Ailsa Mellon-Bruce in 1940 and later merged into the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

See also

  • Avalon Theater (disambiguation)
  • Avallon, Burgundy, France, a commune
  • Avalonia or Avalon terrane, an ancient microcontinent
  • SS Avalon, a list of ships
  • USS Avalon, a list of ships of the US Navy
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