Pelican (disambiguation)

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A pelican is a bird of the family Pelecanidae.

Pelican may also refer to:

Places

• Pelican, Alaska, a city
• Pelican, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
• Pelican Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
• Pelican Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
• Pelican, Wisconsin, a town
• Pelican Butte, a dormant volcano in Oregon
• Pelican State Beach, California
• Pelican River (Otter Tail River), Minnesota
• Pelican River (Vermilion River), Minnesota
• Pelican, New South Wales, Australia, a suburb of the city of Lake Macquarie
• Pelican, Ontario, Canada, an unincorporated community and railway point
• Pelican Creek, Bahamas
• Pelican Island (disambiguation)
• Pelican Lake (disambiguation)
• Pelican Point (disambiguation)

Transportation

Ships

• HMS Pelican, many Royal Navy ships
• USS Pelican, several US Navy ships
• Pelican, the former name of Sir Francis Drake's ship Golden Hind
• Pélican (1693), a short-lived ship that won the Battle of Hudson's Bay
  • Le Pélican (1992) a replica of Pélican (1693) built in Quebec and moored at Donaldsonville, Louisiana
• Pélican (1702), delivered pioneer women and yellow fever to Mobile in 1704
• Pelican (dinghy), a small sail boat class in Perth, Australia
• Pelican (privateer), a British privateer which sank in 1793
• RV Pelican, an oceanographic research vessel
• FV Pelican, a fishing boat which capsized in 1951 off Montauk, New York

Aircraft

• Air Est JCD 03 Pelican, a motor glider
• Boeing Pelican, a large-capacity, low-altitude transport aircraft currently being studied by the Boeing Phantom Works
• Doman LZ-2A Pelican, a five-seat helicopter first flown in 1949
• Pilatus SB-2, a Swiss civil utility aircraft
• Sikorsky HH-3F Pelican, a US Coast Guard search and rescue helicopter
• Ultravia Pelican, two series of ultralight aircraft

Airlines

• Callsign of Aeropelican Air Services, Australian airline
• Pelican Air Services, South African airline

Train

• Pelican (train), a train of the Southern Railway which ran between New York City to New Orleans

Music

• Pelican (band), a post-metal band from Chicago
  • Pelican (EP), their self-titled EP
• Pelican E.P, an EP from the Irish Post-Rock band Tracer AMC
• "Pelican", the lead single from The Maccabees 2012 album Given to the Wild

In print

• Pelican Books, a non-fiction imprint of Penguin Books
• Pelican (magazine), the University of Western Australia student newspaper
• Les Pelican, a 1921 novel by Raymond Radiguet

Computing and video games

• Pelican, a dropship from the Halo video game series
• Pelican (static weblog generator), a Static weblog generator written in Python (programming language)

Sports

• New Orleans Pelicans, a National Basketball Association team (formerly the Hornets)
• St. Petersburg Pelicans, two defunct baseball teams
• Myrtle Beach Pelicans, a minor league baseball team
• New Iberia Pelicans, a defunct minor league baseball team
• Pensacola Pelicans, a defunct minor league baseball team
• Lahti Pelicans, a Finnish ice-hockey team in the national elite league SM-liiga
• AS Pélican, a Gabonese football club
• Pelican Stadium, a former stadium in New Orleans

Other

• Pelican Products, a producer of cases and flashlights
• Pelican crossing, a type of pedestrian road crossing
• Pelican Nebula, an HII region located toward the constellation Cygnus
• Operation Pelican or RAAF Squadron Berlin Air Lift, the Australian contribution to the Berlin Air Lift
• The Pelican (film), a 1973 French film
• An antiquated nickname for an inhabitant of Gibraltar
• Pelican (Fabergé egg), a jewelled Easter egg

See also

• Pelikan (disambiguation)

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