Acheron (disambiguation)
Acheron may refer to:
In places:
- Acheron, a river in Greece, believed in ancient Greek mythology to branch into the underworld
- Acheron, Victoria, a town in Australia
- Acheron River (Victoria), Australia
- Acheron River (Marlborough), New Zealand
- Acheron River (Canterbury), New Zealand
In fiction:
- Acheron LV-426, the planet where the film Alien, and its sequel Aliens, are primarily set
- Acheron (Dungeons & Dragons), one of the Outer Planes in Dungeons and Dragons cosmology
- The Acheron, a fictional 19th-century French warship in the motion picture Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- Acheron Parthenopaeus, a character in the Dark-Hunter series of romance books
- Acheron Hades, a diabolical villain in Jasper Fforde's book The Eyre Affair
- Acheron, a main character of the webcomic Inverloch
- Acheron Empire, a kingdom in the fantasy tales of Robert E. Howard
- Acheron, a character in the sixth season of Winx Club
In other uses:
- Acherontas, a Greek black metal band formed by Nikolaos Panagopoulos
- Acheron (band), a Florida death metal band
- Acheron, the earlier name for Abramelin, a Melbourne death metal band
- HMS Acheron, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
- Acheron-class torpedo boat, a torpedo boat of the New South Wales Naval Brigade
- Acheron language, a language of Sudan
See also
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