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Donner (crater) Donner is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater on the Far side (Moon), far side of the Moon. It is located just to the northeast of the Mare Australe, behind the southeastern limb of the Moon. During favorable librations this part of the lunar sur ...

, a lunar crater * Donner, California, an unincorporated community * Donner, Louisiana, an unincorporated community *

Donner Lake Donner Lake, formerly known as Truckee Lake, is a freshwater lake in Northeast California on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada and about northwest of the much larger Lake Tahoe. A moraine serves as a natural dam for th ...

, a freshwater lake in California *

Donner Memorial State Park Donner Memorial State Park is a California State Park, located at the town of Truckee, California, United States. The park preserves a portion of the Donner Camp site, where members of the ill-fated Donner Party were trapped just short of Do ...

, site of the Donner Camp, where the Donner party was trapped by snow *

Donner Pass Donner Pass is a mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual a ...

, a mountain pass in California * Donner Ski Ranch on Donner Summit, California * Donner und Blitzen River, a freshwater river in Oregon * Mount Donner, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

People and animals

* Donner (surname) *

Donner family The Donner family is one of the renowned and wealthy Swedish-speaking Finns, Finland-Swedish families that grew in importance during the times of the Grand Duchy of Finland. Family members have been influential in Finland, Finnish politics and cul ...

, a renowned and wealthy Finland-Swedish family * Donner the Reindeer or Donder, one of Santa Claus's reindeer * Donner woodrush or ''Luzula subcongesta'' * Donner, a character in ''

Artist Descending a Staircase ''Artist Descending a Staircase'' is a radio play by Tom Stoppard, first broadcast by the BBC in 1972, and later adapted for live theatre. The play centres on a murder mystery involving an artist who dies from falling down a set of stairs. The p ...

'' * Donner, a superheroine in

Milestone Media Milestone Media Company LLC is the media company which created the Milestone Comics line, which were published and distributed by DC Comics. Milestone Media created the source material that was adapted as the '' Static Shock'' animated series. T ...

comic books * Donner, the German name for

Thor Thor (from ) is a prominent list of thunder gods, god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding æsir, god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology, sacred g ...

, a god in Norse mythology

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* Donner Metals Ltd., a Canadian mining company *

Donner Party The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California interim government, 1846-1850, California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent ...

, an ill-fated pioneer group bound for California in 1846 *

Donner Prize The Donner Prize is an award given annually by one of Canada's largest foundations, the Donner Canadian Foundation, for books considered excellent in regard to the writing of Canadian public policy. The prize was established in 1998, and is meant t ...

, a Canadian book award * USS ''Donner'' (LSD-20), a United States naval ship * Donner, a Chinese guitar company * Donner Block, a wing of William Hulme's Grammar School in northern England * Donner Laboratory, a laboratory at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

* Donner Professor, an academic title of the William H. Donner Foundation

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