Tantalus (disambiguation)

Tantalus (disambiguation)

Tantalus is a figure in Greek mythology: see Tantalus.

Tantalus may also signify:
*The Tantalus Peak on the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu.
*The Tantalus Mountains of southwestern British Columbia.
*The USS Tantalus (ARL-27), a United States Navy World War 2 landing craft repair ship
*Tantalus Interactive, an Australian video game development studio
*The Tantalus Coin Registry, a community based project to catalogue coins.
*An asteroid 2102 Tantalus.
*A Tantalus, a caddy for decanters which may be partly exposed but locked in place, requiring a key or some special trick to access.
*"The Torment of Tantalus" (Stargate SG-1), a "Stargate SG-1" tv series episode.
*The Sony PlayStation game Final Fantasy IX involves a theatre troupe known as "Tantalus," which shares the original thieving concept with Tantalus' story.
*In the XBOX 360 Video Game Test Drive Unlimited there is a particularly difficult track available called "Tantalus".
*In the Star Trek original series episode "Mirror, Mirror" the mirror universe version of Captain Kirk has a secret device in his cabin that enables the monitoring and elimination of enemies called the "Tantalus Field."
*In the Star Trek original series episode "Dagger of the Mind", most of the action takes place in the Tantalus Colony.


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