Pelican (disambiguation)

Template:Sister project 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 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

• , many British Royal Navy ships
• , several United States Navy ships
• , a US government research vessel, later the fishery patrol vessel US FWS Pelican
• or Pelican, Francis Drake's ship
• , a British privateer which sank in 1793
• , a short-lived ship that won the Battle of Hudson's Bay
  • , a replica of Pélican built in Quebec and moored at Donaldsonville, Louisiana
• , delivered pioneer women and yellow fever to Mobile in 1704
• Template:RV, an oceanographic research vessel
• , a fishing boat which capsized in 1951 off Montauk, New York
• Pelican (dinghy), a small sail boat class in Perth, Australia
• , formerly Pelican (1948), sail training ship
• Pelican (Bill Short), one of a series of boats designed by Captain Bill Short
• , 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 US 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
• The Pelican, a 1907 play by August Strindberg

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 Elizabeth 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