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Alta

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Alta or ALTA may refer to:

Acronyms

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Places

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Canada

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Norway

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  • 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

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  • Älta, a locality in Nacka Municipality

Ukraine

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United States

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People

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  • Alta (poet) (Alta Gerrey, 1942–2024), poet and prose writer from Oakland, California
  • Alta Cohen (1908–2003), Major League Baseball player

Art, entertainment, and media

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  • 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

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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
  • HNoMS Alta, a museum ship in Oslo, Norway

Other uses

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  • 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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