Dolly Varden
Dolly Varden was a character in Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens. Many things were named after her. Some of them are:
Fish species
- Dolly Varden trout, Salvelinus malma malma, a fish found in coastal waters of the North Pacific
- Dolly Varden trout is also a local name for the Bull trout, Salvelinus confluentus
- Southern Dolly Varden, Salvelinus malma krascheninnikova, a subspecies of migrating fish
Places
- the mine associated with the settlement of Kitsault, British Columbia
- Dolly Varden, Ohio, a community in the United States
- Dolly Varden Mountains, a mountain range in Elko County, Nevada
Other
- Dolly Vardens (baseball team), a name adopted by a number of 19th century baseball clubs
- Dolly Varden (band), a musical group from Chicago, Illinois
- Dolly Varden (costume), a style of dressing popular in the late 19th century
- Dolly Varden, a boat of the Wellington Rowing Club
- Dolly Varden Line, nickname of the Chicago, Attica and Southern Railroad in Indiana
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