Pelican (disambiguation)
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A pelican is a bird of the family Pelecanidae.
Pelican may also refer to:
Places
Australia
- Pelican, New South Wales, a suburb of the city of Lake Macquarie
- Pelican, Queensland, a locality
Bahamas
- Pelican Creek, a river
Canada
- Pelican, Ontario, an unincorporated community and railway point
United States
- Pelican, Alaska, a city
- Pelican State Beach, California
- Pelican, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
- Pelican Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
- Pelican Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
- Pelican River (Otter Tail River), Minnesota
- Pelican River (Vermilion River), Minnesota
- Pelican Butte, a dormant volcano in Oregon
- Pelican, Wisconsin, a town
Ships
- HMS Pelican, many British Royal Navy ships
- USS Pelican, several US Navy ships
- Golden Hind or Pelican, Sir Francis Drake's ship
- Pelican (1793 ship), a British privateer which sank in 1793
- French ship Pélican (1693), a short-lived ship that won the Battle of Hudson's Bay
- Le Pélican (1992), a replica of Pélican built in Quebec and moored at Donaldsonville, Louisiana
- French ship Pélican (1702), delivered pioneer women and yellow fever to Mobile in 1704
- RV Pelican, an oceanographic research vessel
- FV Pelican, a fishing boat which capsized in 1951 off Montauk, New York
- Pelican (dinghy), a small sail boat class in Perth, Australia
- Pelican of London, formerly Pelican (1948), sail training ship
Aviation
- Boeing Pelican, a large-capacity, low-altitude transport aircraft currently being studied
- Sikorsky HH-3F Pelican, a US Coast Guard search and rescue helicopter
- Doman LZ-2A Pelican, a five-seat helicopter first flown in 1949
- Pilatus SB-2, a Swiss civil utility aircraft
- Ultravia Pelican, two series of ultralight aircraft
- Air Est JCD 03 Pelican, a motor glider
- Pelican (bomb), a World War II radar-guided bomb developed by the U.S. Navy
- Pelican Air Services, South African airline
- Pelican, callsign of Australian airline Aeropelican Air Services
Music
- The Pelicans, Detroit doowop group produced by Al Benson in Chicago in 1953
- Pelican (band), a post-metal band from Chicago
- Pelican (EP), their self-titled EP
- Pelican, an EP by Tracer AMC
- "Pelican", a 2012 song by the Maccabees from Given to the Wild
- Pelican (magazine), the University of Western Australia student newspaper
- Pelican Books, a non-fiction imprint of Penguin Books
- Pelican Publishing Company
- Les Pelican, a 1921 novel by Raymond Radiguet
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 uses
- Pelican (Fabergé egg), a jewelled Easter egg
- The Pelican (film), a 1973 French film
- Pelican crossing, a type of pedestrian road crossing
- Pelican (train), a train of the Southern Railway which ran between New York City to New Orleans
- Pelican Nebula, an HII region located toward the constellation Cygnus
- Pelican Products, a producer of cases and flashlights
- RAAF Squadron Berlin Air Lift or Operation Pelican, the Australian contribution to the Berlin Air Lift
See also
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