Volta may refer to: Rivers and lakes Lake Volta in Ghana Burkina Faso, the country formerly named Upper Volta The Volta River, consisting of the: Black Volta Red Volta White Volta Other Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist and inventor of the electric battery; the Volta Prize in association with the Academie Francaise, the Alessandro Volta Foundation, and its Volta Conference (an interwar cycle of cultural meetings) were named after him Volta (crater), a crater on the moon named after… (More on Volta)