Alta

Alta or ALTA may refer to:

Places

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Canada

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Norway

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United States

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Elsewhere

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People

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  • Alta (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname
  • Alta (poet), American poet and prose writer Alta Gerrey (1942–2024)
  • Eelco Alta (1723–1798), Frisian clergyman, theologian and contributor to veterinary medicine

Acronyms

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Businesses

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Ships

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  • MV Alta, a ship that was abandoned at sea in 2018 and ran aground in Ireland in 2020
  • Alta-class minesweeper, a Royal Norwegian Navy ship class
  • HNoMS Alta, a former Royal Norwegian Navy Sauda-class mine countermeasure vessel

Other uses

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  • Alta (novel), a 2004 fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey
  • Alta, Spanish term equivalent to the dance Saltarello
  • Alta High School (Iowa), Alta, Iowa, United States
  • Alta High School (Utah), Sandy, Utah, United States
  • Alta Club, a private club in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
  • Alta IF, a Norwegian football club based in Alta Municipality, Norway
  • AV Alta FC, an American professional soccer team based in Lancaster, California
  • Alta (dye), a red paste used by women in Bangladesh, India and Nepal to paint the borders of the feet
  • Alta language, a pair of languages spoken in northern Luzon, the Philippines

See also

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