Altamont

Altamont may refer to:

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Places

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Canada

• Altamont, British Columbia
• Altamont, Manitoba

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India

• Altamont Road, in south Mumbai

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United States

• Altamont, California
• Altamont Pass, in California
• Altamont, Illinois
• Altamont, Kansas
• Altamont, Maryland
• Altamont, Missouri
• Altamont, New York
• Tupper Lake (town), New York, formerly Altamont, in Franklin County
• Altamont, North Carolina
• Altamont, Ohio
• Altamont, Oregon
• Altamont, Pennsylvania
• Altamont, South Carolina
• Altamont, South Dakota
• Altamont, Tennessee
• Altamont, Utah

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Enterprises and organizations

• Altamont Apparel, a clothing brand
• The Altamont Enterprise, a weekly newspaper in Albany County, New York
• Altamont Raceway Park, a motorsports race track located in Alameda County in Northern California and site of the Altamont Free Concert
• Altamont School, Birmingham, Alabama

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Fictional entities

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Characters

• Captain Altamont, the archenemy of Captain Hatteras in The Adventures of Captain Hatteras.
• Altamont, the alias used by Sherlock Holmes in the story "His Last Bow"
• Frederick Altamont, an alias of a pirate in Walter Scott's novel The Pirate
• Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham, or Uncle Fred, in the P. G. Wodehouse novels
• Mr. Frederic Altamont, a character in W. M. Thackeray's Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush

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Places

• Altamont the stand-in for Asheville, North Carolina in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel

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Music

• Altamont (band)
• Altamont Free Concert, a 1969 rock concert held in Altamont, California
• "Altamont", a song by Aphrodite's Child on their album 666
• "Altamont", a song by Echo & The Bunnymen on their album Evergreen

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Transportation

• Altamont Corridor Express

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See also

• Mont Alta, a former ski area of Quebec

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