Lander may refer to:
Media and entertainment
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''Lander'' (computer game), computer game published by Psygnosis in 1999
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''Lander'' (game demo), the 3D game demo provided with the Acorn Archimedes computer
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Lander (Transformers), a fictional character in the ''Transformers'' series
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''Lunar Lander'' (arcade game), an arcade game
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''Lunar Lander'' (video game series), one of several video games
Places
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Lander College for Men
The Lander College for Men is a private men's division of Touro University System located in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York City. Its stated goal is to provide a college curriculum while maintaining a traditional Yeshiva environment. Gener ...
, a Jewish college in New York
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Lander County, Nevada
Lander County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,734. Its county seat is Battle Mountain.
History
Lander County was created in 1862 as the result of a mining boom on the Reese River along the ...
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Lander Crossing, California
Lander Crossing (also, Lander) is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California. Lander Crossing is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad
The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class ...
, United States
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Lander, Maryland
Lander is an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Lock 29 on the C&O Canal
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the "Grand Old Ditch," operated from 1831 until ...
, United States
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Lander, Pennsylvania
Lander is an unincorporated community in Farmington Township in Warren County, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appal ...
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Lander University
Lander University is a public university in Greenwood, South Carolina.
Campus and housing
Lander University is located approximately one half-mile from uptown Greenwood, South Carolina. The main campus sits on 190 acres of land, though this doe ...
, a public university in South Carolina
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Lander, Wyoming
Lander is a city in Wyoming, United States, and the county seat of Fremont County. It is in central Wyoming, along the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River, just south of the Wind River Indian Reservation. It is a tourism center with several near ...
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Lander Municipality
Lander is one of the 21 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Miranda and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 135,739. The ...
Science
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Benthic lander
Benthic landers are observational platforms that sit on the seabed or benthic zone to record physical, chemical or biological activity. The landers are autonomous and have deployment durations from a few days (for biological studies) to several y ...
, oceanographic measuring platform which sits on the seabed or benthic zone
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Lander (crater)
Lander is a lunar impact crater that is located just to the north-northeast of the prominent Tsiolkovskiy, on the far side of the Moon.
Attached to the northeastern rim of Lander is Volkov J, which is joined with Volkov to the north. Just to t ...
, lunar crater
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Lander (spacecraft)
A lander is a spacecraft that descends towards, comes to rest on, the surface of an astronomical body. In contrast to an impact probe, which makes a hard landing that damages or destroys the probe upon reaching the surface, a lander makes a so ...
, type of spacecraft, designed for descending the surface of an astronomical body
Other uses
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Lander (surname) Lander is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Anton Lander (born 1991), Swedish ice hockey player
* Bernard Lander (1915–2010), Founder of Touro College
* Brad Lander (living), American politician
* Bruce Lander (born 1946), J ...
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Lander (foreigner)
In law, an alien is any person (including an organization) who is not a citizenship, citizen or a nationality, national of a specific country, although definitions and terminology differ to some degree depending upon the continent or region. ...
, a foreigner
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Länder
Länder (singular Land) or Bundesländer (singular Bundesland) is the name for (federal) states in two German-speaking countries. It may more specifically refer to:
* States of Austria, the nine federal subdivisions of Austria
* States of Germany ...
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Landers (disambiguation)
Landers may refer to:
People
* Landers (surname), a list of people surnamed Landers (including fictional people)
Places
* Landers, California, United States
* Landers Peaks, group of peaks in the northern portion of Alexander Island, Antarc ...
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Flatlander (disambiguation)
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Outlander (disambiguation)
Outlander may refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
* Outlander (novel), ''Outlander'' (novel), a 1991 novel by Diana Gabaldon
** Outlander (book series), ''Outlander'' (book series), Gabaldon's novel and its sequels, and derivative works
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