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The meaning and origin of the name Avalon have been long debated by Arthurian scholars as well as Celtic and Romance philologists. [1] Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudo-chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae ("The History of the Kings of Britain", c. 1136) calls the place Insula Avallonis, meaning the "Isle of Avallon" in Latin.
Avalonnectes was first described and named by Roger B. J. Benson, Mark Evans and Patrick S. Druckenmiller in 2012 and the type species is Avalonnectes arturi.The generic name is derived from Avalon, an island from the legend of King Arthur, often identified with Glastonbury, near Street, and from Greek nectes, meaning "swimmer".
The etymology of the names Brasil and Hy-Brasil is unknown. Despite the similarity, the name of the country Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil) has no connection to the mythical islands. The historian Walter Scaife remarked in 1890 that the toponym had something of a will-o'-the-wisp character, "for on various maps it may be seen designating a great ...
The Avalon Peninsula (French: Péninsule d'Avalon) is a large peninsula that makes up the southeast portion of the island of Newfoundland in Canada. It is 9,220.61 square kilometres (3,560.10 sq mi) in size. [1] The peninsula is home to 270,348 people, about 52% of Newfoundland's population, according to the 2016 Canadian census.
Avalon Studios, a film and television studio, located in Avalon, New Zealand Avalon Waterways , an American ship and river cruise line owned by Globus Chateau Avalon , Kansas City, Kansas, US, a luxury hotel and bed and breakfast
Avallon is located 50 km south-southeast of Auxerre, served by a branch of the Paris–Lyon railway and by exit 22 of the A6 motorway. The old town, with many winding cobblestone streets flanked by traditional stone and woodwork buildings, is situated on a flat promontory, the base of which is washed on the south by the river Cousin, on the east and west by small streams.
Dragontorc is an action-adventure game developed by Steve Turner's Graftgold and released for the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum by Hewson Consultants in 1985. It is a sequel to 1984's Avalon The 3D Adventure Movie.
The Province of Avalon was the area around the English settlement of Ferryland in what is now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada in the 17th century, which upon the success of the colony grew to include the land held by Sir William Vaughan and all the land that lay between Ferryland and Petty Harbour.