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Avalon is an island in the Arthurian legend.
Avalon may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Comics
- Avalon (webcomic), written by Josh Phillips
- Avalon (Marvel Comics), a fictional island
Film and television
- Avalon (1990 film), a film by Barry Levinson
- Avalon (2001 film), a Japanese/Polish film by Mamoru Oshii
- Avalon (2011 film), a Swedish drama film directed by Axel Petersén
- "Avalon" (Stargate SG-1), the first two episodes of the ninth season of Stargate SG-1
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
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
- Avalon (Roxy Music album) (1982)
- Avalon (Avalon album) (1996)
- Avalon (Anthony Green album) (2008)
- Avalon (Sully Erna album) (2010)
- Avalon (soundtrack), a soundtrack of the 1990 film Avalon
- Avalon Los Angeles CA 24/06/06, a 2006 album by Sasha
- Avalon (Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge album) (2014)
- Avalon (EP), 2017 by Gabrielle Aplin
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 (Gothenburg), Sweden
- 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
- Avalon Beach, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney known until 2012 as Avalon
- Avalon, Victoria
- Avalon Airport in Victoria, Australia
- Australian International Airshow, sometimes called the Avalon Airshow after its hosting airport
Canada
- Avalon (electoral district), Newfoundland
- Avalon, Ottawa, a neighborhood in a suburb of the city of Ottawa, Ontario
- Avalon, Saskatoon, a neighbourhood in the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland
- Province of Avalon, Newfoundland
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
- Avalon, France, a village outside of Pontcharra, Isère, France
- Avalon, New Zealand, a suburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand
- Avalon graveyard, in Soweto, South Africa
Technology
- Avalon Project, a digital library of documents held by the Yale Law School
- Avalon, the codename for Windows Presentation Foundation, a user interface API designed by Microsoft
- Apache Avalon, a computer software framework
- Avalon switch fabric, the peripheral interface used in Altera's Nios II embedded processor
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 formerly
- 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
- Toyota Avalon concept convertible, introduced at the 1991 Tokyo Auto Show[1][2]
- 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
- "Toyota Avalon". 2000GT (in French). Archived from the original on 2007-10-31.
- "The Ten Weirdest Concept Cars From The Tokyo Motor Show". Jalopnik. G/O Media Inc. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
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