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)
• Acheron River, Marlborough, New Zealand
• Acheron River (Canterbury), New Zealand

In fiction:

• Acheron, (or LV-426), the planet where Lt. Ripley and her crew found the Aliens, as it was shown on the sci-fi/horror movie "Alien"
• Acheron, a star system in the Styx Theta Cluster where a rachni infestation occurred in the computer game Mass Effect
• Acheron (plane), 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, an antagonist in the Shades series of books

In other uses:

• Acheron (band), a Florida death metal band
• HMS Acheron, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
• Acheron, a torpedo boat of the New South Wales Naval Brigade

See also

• Charon (mythology)
• Hades
• Styx (mythology)