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
• Pelican Creek (Bahamas)
• Pelican Lagoon, South Australia
• Pelican Point (Swan River), Western Australia

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 Butte, a dormant volcano in Oregon
• Pelican, Wisconsin, a town
• Pelican River (disambiguation)

Elsewhere

• Pelican Creek (Bahamas)
• Pelican, Ontario, Canada, an unincorporated community and railway point

Ships

• HMS Pelican, many British Royal Navy ships
• USS Pelican, several United States Navy ships
• USFS Pelican, a United States Bureau of Fisheries research vessel in service from 1930 to 1940 which then served in the Fish and Wildlife Service fleet as the fishery patrol vessel US FWS Pelican from 1940 to 1958
• 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
• Pelican (Bill Short), one of a series of boats designed by Captain Bill Short
• Pelican (HBC vessel), operated by the Hudson's Bay Company from 1901–1920, see Hudson's Bay Company vessels

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" (song), a 2011 song by The Maccabees
• "Pelican", a 2015 song by David Guetta on the re-release of Listen

Print

• 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 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
• The Pelican, former name of the Prospect of Whitby pub in London

See also

• Pelican Drop, a former New Year's Eve celebration in Pensacola, Florida
• Pelican eel, a deep sea species of fish
• Pelican Island (disambiguation)
• Pelican Lake (disambiguation)
• Pelican Portrait, of Elisabeth I of England
• Pelican Point (disambiguation)
• Pelicanman, a 2004 Finnish fantasy film
• Pelikan (disambiguation)
• The Pelican Brief, a legal-suspense thriller by John Grisham (1992)
• The Pelican Brief (film), 1993

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