Salamander (disambiguation)

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A salamander is an amphibian.

Salamander may also refer to:

In mythology

• Salamander (legendary creature)

In arts and entertainment

In film and television

• Salamander (anime), a video animation
• Salamander (TV series), a Belgian television series
• The Salamander (1971 film), a Swiss film directed by Alain Tanner
• The Salamander (1981 film), starring Anthony Quinn
• A fictional character in the Doctor Who serial The Enemy of the World

In gaming

• Salamander (video game), a scrolling shooter arcade game
• Salamander 2, a sequel to Salamander
• Salamander (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Salamanders (Warhammer 40,000), a chapter from the fictional Warhammer universe
• Salamander, a mechanical lifeform from the fictional Zoids universe

In literature

• Salamander (DC comics), member of a fictional team of DC Comics superheroes
• Salamander (novel), a 2002 novel by Thomas Wharton
• Salamander: A Miscellany of Poetry, a 1947 anthology of poetry
• Salamander, a literary magazine at Suffolk University
• Nickname of fictional character Honor Harrington
• Nickname of fictional character Natsu Dragneel in the manga Fairy Tail

In music

• A song from Ellegarden album Eleven Fire Crackers
• A song by Jethro Tull on their album Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Fiametta, a ballet also known as The Salamander, first presented in 1863

Places

• Salamander Range, a mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica
• The Salamander Glacier, Montana, United States
• Salamander Point, Bellingshausen Island, South Sandwich Islands

Ships

• Salamander of Leith (1537), ship of the Old Scots Navy
• HMS Salamander, various Royal Navy ships
• Salamander (1776 ship), a ship which transported convicts from England to Australia in 1791, but also was a whaler, a slave ship, and briefly a captive of the French

Technology

• Salamander (metallurgy), a term for materials in the hearth of a blast furnace below the tap hole
• Salamander broiler, a type of grilling equipment
• Salamander heater, a portable heater
• Altap Salamander, file management software
• Alvis Salamander, a fire engine
• Sopwith Salamander, a First World War aircraft
• Salamander, a code name for the construction program for the Heinkel He 162, a Second World War German jet aircraft
• Salamander, .NET decompiler

Other uses

• Salamander Energy, a British-based oil and gas exploration and production company
• SV Salamander Türkheim, a German association football club named after the Salamander shoe factory
• Nickname given by Winston Churchill to Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg

See also

• The Salamander letter, a forgery created in the early 1980s in an attempt to discredit the Latter Day Saint movement and its founder, Joseph Smith
• La Salamandre (disambiguation)