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Donner (crater) Donner is a lunar impact crater on the 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 libration In lunar astronomy, libration is the wagging ...

, a lunar crater * Mount Donner, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada * Donner, California, an unincorporated community near Donner Pass, United States *

Donner Lake Donner Lake is a freshwater lake in Northeast California on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and about northwest of the much larger Lake Tahoe. A moraine serves as a natural dam for the lake. The lake is located in the town of Truckee, betw ...

, in California *

Donner Memorial State Park Donner Memorial State Park is a state park of California, US, preserving the site of the Donner Camp, where members of the ill-fated Donner Party were trapped by weather during the winter of 1846–1847. Caught without shelter or adequate sup ...

, 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 ...

* Donner Ski Ranch on Donner Summit, California *

Donner, Louisiana Donner is an unincorporated community in Terrebonne Parish Terrebonne Parish ( ; French: ''Paroisse de Terrebonne'') is a parish located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2010 census, the population was 111,860, an ...

, an unincorporated community

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* Donner (surname) * USS ''Donner'' (LSD-20), a United States naval ship * Donner Prize, a Canadian book award * Donner the Reindeer or Donder, one of Santa Claus's reindeer *

Donner Metals Ltd. Sphinx Resources Ltd. (formerly Donner Metals Ltd.) is a Canadian company focused on exploration of precious and base metals within mining rights in Quebec. It is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. The company was formerly named Donner Metals ...

, a Canadian mining company * Donner, the German name for

Thor Thor (; from non, Þórr ) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, the protection of humankind, hallowing ...

, a god in Norse mythology * Donner, a superheroine in

Milestone Media Milestone Media is a company best known for creating Milestone Comics, which were published and distributed by DC Comics and the '' Static Shock'' animated series. It was founded in 1993 by a coalition of African-American artists and writers, ...

comic books * Donner, a character in '' Artist Descending a Staircase'' * 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 land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

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

Donner Party The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in th ...

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

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