Alta

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Alta or ALTA may refer to:

Acronyms

Places

Canada

  • Alta Creek, the official name of the River of Golden Dreams, in Whistler, British Columbia
  • Alta Lake (British Columbia), a lake in Whistler, British Columbia
  • Alta Lake, British Columbia, a community now part of Whistler, British Columbia
  • Mont Alta, a hill in the Laurentides zone of the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, that is the basis of the Ski Mont Alta ski hill; see List of former ski areas of Quebec
  • Alberta, Canada (abbreviation ALTA)

Norway

  • Alta Municipality, a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
  • Alta (town), a town within Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
  • Alta Airport, an airport in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
  • Alta Church, a church in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
  • Alta Museum, a museum in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
  • Altaelva (lit.'Alta River'), a river in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
    • Alta controversy, a series of protests over Sámi rights and dam on the Altaelva

Sweden

  • Älta, a locality in Nacka Municipality

Ukraine

  • Alta (river), a small tributary of the Trubizh in Ukraine

United States

People

  • Alta (poet) (Alta Gerrey, born 1942), poet and prose writer from Oakland, California
  • Alta Cohen, Major League Baseball player

Art, entertainment, and media

  • Alta (novel), a 2004 fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey
  • Alta, Spanish term equivalent to the dance Saltarello
  • Acqua Alta, a novel by Donna Leon
  • Alta capella, a 20th-century musicological term for Renaissance wind ensembles
  • Alta IF, a Norwegian football club based in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway

Businesses

Ships

  • MV Alta, a ship that was abandoned at sea in 2018 and ran aground in Ireland in 2020
  • HNoMS Alta, a museum ship in Oslo, Norway

Other uses

  • Alta (dye), a red paste used by women in Bangladesh, India and Nepal to paint the borders of the feet
  • Acqua alta (Italian: "high water"), the term used in Veneto for the exceptional tide peaks that occur periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea

See also

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  • Altas (disambiguation)
  • Altamont (disambiguation)
  • AltaVista, search engine
  • Alto (disambiguation)
  • Arta (disambiguation)
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