Amity

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Amity, a word which means "friendship", can refer to:

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United States
Australia
Fictional
  • Amity Island/Township, the setting of Jaws (film)
  • Amity Island is also the fictional setting for the follow up movies of Jaws, Jaws II, Jaws III. While the movies depicts new england area, in Jaws II, the film was actually filmed on the western panhandle of Florida near Pensacola, FL on the island of Santa Rosa.
  • Amity Park, fictional hometown of Nickelodeon's Danny Phantom

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[edit] Other uses

  • Amity Outerwear, Providing quality outerwear to cool people- enough said. www.amityouterwear.com
  • The Amity Affliction, an Australian post-hardcore band
  • The Brig Amity, a 148 ton brig used in Australia in the early nineteenth century
  • Amity Printing Company, the government-approved Christian publisher in China
  • "In amity" (see Freemasonry), the condition in which Masonic Grand Lodges recognise each other and allow intervisitation
  • MV Amity, a British coaster
  • Amity Cafe, a restaurant in western Pennsylvania, in the county of Somerset, northern Somerset County, near Cambria, in Conemaugh Township. The cafe opened in the late 1950's under the name Varner's. There also is an Amity Cafe located on Martha's Vineyard in Mass, the original filming location of the movie "Jaws" and 3 weeks of filming of the movie "Jaws II"