Tristan (disambiguation)

Tristan is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.

Tristan may also refer to:

Places

  • Tristan (Guinea), the largest island in the Tristan and Capken Islands
  • Tristan da Cunha, a British volcanic island and eponymous archipelago in the mid-south Atlantic, often shortened to "Tristan"
  • Tristan Island or the Île Tristan, located at the mouth of the Pouldavid Estuary off the French port of Douarnenez in south-western Brittany
  • Tristan hotspot, a volcanic hotspot which is responsible for the volcanic activity which forms the volcanoes in the southern Atlantic Ocean

Literature

Music

Science and Technology

  • Tristan (dinosaur), a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen
  • TRISTAN, a particle accelerator in Japan that was the first site to confirm vacuum polarization around an electron

Other uses

See also

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