Calypso

Calypso refers to:

• Calypso (mythology), a nymph who, famously in Homer's Odyssey, kept Odysseus with her on her island of Ogygia for seven years.
• Calypso (nymphs), other nymphs called Calypso.

Calypso may also refer to:

Places

• Calypso, an area and a cave in Gozo, Malta
• Calypso, North Carolina, a town in the United States
• Calypso Deep, the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea

Nature

• Calypso (moon), a natural satellite of Saturn
• Calypso (plant), an orchid genus containing a single species Calypso bulbosa
• Calypso bean, a kidney bean hybrid also known as the pickle bean, orca bean or yin yang bean

Books

• "Calypso" (Ulysses episode), an episode in James Joyce's novel Ulysses
• Calypso (book), 2018 essay collection by David Sedaris
• Calypso (comics), Marvel Comics character
• Calypso, Camp Half-Blood Chronicles

Companies and brands

• Calypso Park, a Canadian theme waterpark
• Calypso Technology, an American financial services application software company
• Calypso (camera), an underwater camera — a precursor to the Nikonos camera
• Calypso (electronic ticketing system), an electronic ticketing system for public transport
• Ultracraft Calypso, a Belgian light aircraft design
• Calypso (email client), later called Courier

Music

• Calypso music, a genre of Trinidadian folk music
• Banda Calypso, a Brazilian musical duo
• Calypso (album), by Harry Belafonte

Songs

• "Calypso" (John Denver song), written as a tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his research ship Calypso
• "Calypso" (Spiderbait song), a 1997 single by Australian alt-rock band Spiderbait
• "Calypso" (Luis Fonsi and Stefflon Don song), 2018
• "Calypso", a song by France Gall
• "Calypso", a song by Jean-Michel Jarre from Waiting for Cousteau
• "Calypso", a song by Suzanne Vega from Solitude Standing
• "Calipso" (song), a 2019 song by Charlie Charles and Dardust featuring Sfera Ebbasta, Mahmood and Fabri Fibra
• "Calipso" (song), a song by alt-rock band Poor Moxi on the EP "Same Kind of Vain" released in 2020
• Chalypso, a dance

Ships

• MS The Calypso, a cruise ship
• HMS Calypso, the name of a number of British Royal Navy ships
• RV Calypso, a 1942 British minesweeper and later an oceanographic research ship operated by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• USS Calypso, the name of various United States Navy ships
• MV Calypsoland, a ferry of E. Zammit & Sons Ltd and later the Gozo Channel Line between 1969 and 1984
• Calypso, a name given by Sunita Williams to the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft used for the Boeing Orbital Flight Test in 2019
• UNS Calypso, fictitious starship commanded by the player in the 1994 sci-fi strategy game Alien Legacy
• French submarine Calypso

Other

• Calypso, a Pirates of the Caribbean character
• Calypso (TV series), a Venezuelan telenovela
• Calypso, a character from the Twisted Metal video game series
• "Calypso" (Star Trek: Short Treks), an episode of Star Trek: Short Treks

Related spellings

• Kalypso (software), an open source modelling software
• 53 Kalypso, an asteroid
• CALIPSO, NASA's "Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations" satellite
• Kalypso Media, a video game developer