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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 Norden is a small unincorporated community in Nevada County, California, United States, about west of Truckee. The community is located on a former portion of U.S. Route 40 near Interstate 80 and lies along the historical first transcontinent ...

, an unincorporated community *

Donner, Louisiana Donner is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States. Its ZIP code is 70352. Notes

Unincorporated communities in Terrebonne Parish, Louisian ...

, 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 Donner Ski Ranch is a budget-oriented, family owned ski area located on Donner Summit in the Tahoe National Forest of Nevada County, California Nevada County ( ) is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Californi ...

on Donner Summit, California *

Donner und Blitzen River The Donner und Blitzen River is a river on the eastern Oregon high desert that drains a relatively arid basin, the southern portion of Harney Basin, from roughly 20 to 80 miles (30 to 130 km) south-southeast of Burns including Malheur Nationa ...

, a freshwater river in Oregon *

Mount Donner Mount Donner is a mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific O ...

, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

People and animals

Donner (surname) Donner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Aleksander Donner (1948–2013), Ukrainian handball coach *André Donner, Dutch jurist, former President of the European Court of Justice *Clive Donner, British film director *Franziska ...

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 In traditional Western festive legend and popular culture, Santa Claus's reindeer are said to pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus deliver gifts to children on Christmas Eve. While various legends offer differing details, t ...

or Donder, one of Santa Claus's reindeer *

Donner woodrush ''Luzula subcongesta'' is a species of flowering plant in the rush family known by the common name Donner woodrush. It is native to the high mountains of California, from the Klamath Mountains, where its distribution extends into Oregon, to the ...

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. 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 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 William Henry Donner (1864–1953) was an American businessman and philanthropist, born in Columbus, Indiana. He graduated from Hanover College in 1887. His academic philanthropy led to the creation of the five chairs and the title of Donner Profe ...

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