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Places

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Overland, Missouri Overland is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 16,062 at the 2010 census. History The area south of the King's Road to St. Charles was first settled in the early 1820s, when travelers westward from St. Louis ...
, a city in the United States *
Overland Park, Kansas Overland Park ( ) is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas. Located in Johnson County, Kansas, it is one of four principal cities in the Kansas City metropolitan area and the most populous suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. As ...
, a city in the United States * Overland Corner, South Australia, a settlement in Australia *
Overland Lake (Nevada) Overland Lake is a glacial tarn in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County in the northeastern part of the state of Nevada. It is located at the head of Overland Canyon at approximately 40°27.6'N and 115°27.4'W, and at an elevation of . It has an are ...
, a glacial lake in the United States * Øverland, Bærum, an area in Norway


People

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Øverland (surname) Øverland is a Norwegian surname. As of 2013, 1,543 people in Norway have this surname. Notable people Notable people with this surname include: * Arnulf Øverland Ole Peter Arnulf Øverland (27 April 1889 – 25 March 1968) was a Norwegian ...
, a Norwegian surname *
Amanda Overland Amanda Overland (born August 30, 1981) is a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as ...
, Canadian short track speed skater *
Kevin Overland Kevin Overland, or Kevin Crockett (born June 8, 1974) is a Canadian former Olympic and ISU Speed Skating World Cup medallist and present-day Speed Skating Canada national sprint team coach. He won the Olympic bronze medal in the 500 metres eve ...
, Canadian speedskater *
Simon Overland Simon James Overland (born 19 March 1962)
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is the for ...
, Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police (Australia) since March 2009 * Steve Overland, British singer and musician *
Volkert Overlander Volkert Overlander (also ''Volcker'' and ''Volckert Overlander''; 7 October 1570 – 18 October 1630) was a Dutch Nobility, noble, jurist, ship-owner, merchant and an Amsterdam Regenten, regent from the Dutch Golden Age. Biography Volkert was born ...
, Dutch noble and merchant


Transport

* Overland Trail, stagecoach line *
Overland train In the 1950s, LeTourneau Inc. developed several overland trains, essentially oversized semi-trailer trucks that could travel over almost any terrain. Their intention was to be able to handle logistics needs without being dependent on local road ...
, oversized off-road vehicle *
Overland Track The Overland Track is an Australian bushwalking track, traversing Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. It's walked by more than nine thousand people each year, with numbers limited i ...
, Australian hiking trail


Companies

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Overland Automobile The Overland Automobile Company was an American automobile manufacturer in Toledo, Ohio. It was the founding company of Willys-Overland and one of the earliest mass producers of automobiles. History The Overland Automobile department was foun ...
, the original name of the American company Willys-Overland * Overland Custom Coach, Canadian custom vehicle manufacturer *
Overland Airways Overland Airways is an airline based in Ikeja in Lagos State, Nigeria. Its main base is Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, with a hub at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. History The airline commenced operations in 200 ...
, Nigerian airline


Trains

* The Overland Limited, a named train that traversed the United States along the original route of the First transcontinental railroad. * ''
The Overland ''The Overland'' is an Australian passenger train service between the state capitals of Melbourne and Adelaide, a distance of 828 km (515 mi). It first ran in 1887 as the ''Adelaide Express'', known by South Australians as the ''Melb ...
'', the name used since 1926 for the inter-capital passenger train service that runs between Melbourne and Adelaide in Australia. * The ''
Overland Flyer The ''Overland Limited'' (also known at various times as the ''Overland Flyer'', ''San Francisco Overland Limited'', ''San Francisco Overland'' and often simply as the ''Overland'') was an American named passenger train which for much of its hist ...
'', one of the named passenger trains of the Union Pacific Railroad


Events

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Overland Campaign The Overland Campaign, also known as Grant's Overland Campaign and the Wilderness Campaign, was a series of battles fought in Virginia during May and June 1864, in the American Civil War. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of all Union ...
, U.S. Civil War campaign *
Overland (Italian expedition) Overland or Overland World Truck Expedition is the name of a documentary series of expeditions promoted and organized by Beppe Tenti. The documentaries are broadcast from 1996 on RAI 1, for a total of more than 150 episodes (replicated on several ...
, a series of expeditions and documentaries *
Overland Relief Expedition The Overland Relief Expedition, also called the Alaska Relief Expedition or Point Barrow-Overland Relief Expedition, was an expedition in the winter of 1897–1898 by officers of the United States Revenue Cutter Service to save the lives of 265 whal ...
, whaler rescue operation * The
Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition The 1955-56 Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition was a publicity effort by Land Rover in support of the 1956 Land Rover Series I Station Wagons. The station wagons were very different from the previous Tickford model, being built with bolt ...
, a 1955-6 journey undertaken in two Land Rovers from London to Singapore


Entertainment

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Land and Overland The ''Land and Overland'' trilogy is a group of three science fantasy novels by Northern Irish writer Bob Shaw. The trilogy consists of the books ''The Ragged Astronauts'' (published in 1986), ''The Wooden Spaceships'' (1988) and ''The Fugiti ...
fictional universe * ''Overland'' (magazine), an Australian literary and cultural magazine * Overland Monthly, a defunct U.S. magazine * ''
Overland with Kit Carson ''Overland with Kit Carson'' is a 1939 American Western serial film directed by Norman Deming and Sam Nelson and starring Bill Ellott, Iris Meredith, Richard Fiske and Bobby Clack. Plot When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westwar ...
'', a Western film serial from the United States * ''Overland'' (video game), a strategy video game


Other

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Overland Storage Overland Storage is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sphere 3D Corp. It has acquired Tandberg Data shortly before being acquired by Sphere 3D itself. The two subsidiaries were later rebranded under the common Overland-Tandberg brand. History It was ...
, a robotic tape library manufacturer, formerly known as ''Overland Data'' * Overland Telegraph Company, U.S. telegraph company *
Overland High School Overland High School is located in Aurora, Colorado, United States, and is part of the Cherry Creek School District. Overland High School is a comprehensive public, suburban, college-oriented institution. It is accredited by the North Central As ...
in Aurora, Colorado


See also

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Overland Expedition (disambiguation) Overland Expedition may refer to: * Overland Relief Expedition, an 1897-1898 expedition by the United States Revenue Cutter Service to rescue whalers trapped in the Arctic Ocean * Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition or First Overland, a 195 ...
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Overland Limited (disambiguation) Overland Limited may refer to: Trains * Overland Limited (ATSF train), 1901–1915 * Overland Limited (UP train), 1895–1931 Films * ''The Overland Limited'' (1925) * Several short films made in 1899 and 1901: **''Overland Limited'' (1899) **' ...
* Overland Route (disambiguation) * Overlander (disambiguation) *
Overlanding Overlanding is self-reliant overland travel to remote destinations where the journey is the principal goal. Typically, but not exclusively, it is accomplished with mechanized off-road capable transport (from bicycles to trucks) where the principal ...
* Oberland (disambiguation) * Oberlander *
Oorlams Oorlams (also: ''Oorlands'', ''Oorlans'') is a dialect of Afrikaans spoken in the Republic of South Africa and Namibia, by the Oorlam people. It is considered to be either an Afrikaans-based creole language or a dialect of Afrikaans proper. Oo ...
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