title: Hatch
text: # Hatch
  
  Hatch or The Hatch may refer to:
  
  ## Common meanings
  
  ### Biology
  
  * Hatch, to emerge from an egg
  * Hatch(ing), the process of egg incubation
  
  ### Portals
  
  * Hatch, a sealed or secure door of a ship, submarine, aircraft, spacecraft, or automobile
  * Hatch, a sluice gate
  * Hatch, a trapdoor, a door on a floor or ceiling
  
  ## Places
  
  ### Antarctica
  
  * Hatch Islands, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
  * Hatch Plain, Coats Land, Antarctica
  
  ### Australia
  
  * The Hatch, New South Wales, a suburb within Port Macquarie-Hastings Council
  
  ### England
  
  * Hatch, Bedfordshire, a hamlet
  * Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset
  * Hatch Park, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Kent
  * East Hatch and West Hatch, hamlets within the parish of West Tisbury, Wiltshire
  * West Hatch, hamlet and civil parish in Somerset
  
  ### United States
  
  * Hatch, Idaho, an unincorporated community
  * Hatch, Missouri, an unincorporated community
  * Hatch, New Mexico, a village
  * Hatch, Utah, a town
  * Hatch Airport, an airport in Stayton, Oregon
  
  ## People with the name
  
  * Hatch (surname)
  * Harrison Hatch Rosdahl (1941–2004), American football player
  
  ## Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  * Hatch, a bug-like villain from the TV show Hot Wheels Battle Force 5
  * The Hatch, the third DHARMA Initiative station in the television show Lost
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Hatch chile, sub-cultivars of the New Mexico chile pepper cultivar group grown near Hatch, New Mexico
  * Hatch (e-commerce company), an ecommerce platform based in Amsterdam
  * Hatch Ltd, an engineering and development consulting company based in Canada
  * Hatch-class lifeboat, formerly operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution of the United Kingdom and Ireland
  