Pelican (disambiguation)

A pelican is a bird of the family Pelecanidae.

Pelican may also refer to:

Places

• Pelican, Alaska, United States
• Pelican, Wisconsin, United States
• Pelican, New South Wales, Australia

Transportation

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
• HMS Pelican, the name of many Royal Navy ships
• Pelican (dinghy), a small sail boat class in Perth, Australia
• Pelican (privateer), a British privateer which sank in 1793
• RV Pelican, a 116 ft 4 inch research vessel outfitted for a variety of oceanographic research missions
• FV Pelican, a fishing boat which capsized in 1951 off Montauk, New York

Aircraft

• Air Est JCD 03 Pelican, motor glider
• Boeing Pelican, the large-capacity low-altitude transport aircraft currently being studied by the Boeing Phantom Works
• Sikorsky HH-3F Pelican, the US Coast Guard Search and Rescue helicopter
• Ultravia Pelican, ultralight aircraft

Airlines

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

Train

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

Media and arts

• Pelican (band), a post-metal band from Chicago, as well as 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 upcoming Maccabees album, Given to the Wild
• Pelican Books, a non-fiction imprint of Penguin Books
• Pelican (magazine), the University of Western Australia student newspaper
• The Pelicans, translated from the 1921 novel Les Pelican by Raymond Radiguet

Computing and video games

• Pelican, a dropship from the video game series Halo
• Pelican, a Static weblog generator, written in python

Other

• The Pelicans, the notorious all-male drinking society of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge[1]
• Pelican Products, a producer of high quality cases and flashlights
  • Pelican case, a watertight case made by Pelican Products
• Pelican crossing, a type of pedestrian road crossing
• Pelican Nebula, an HII region located toward the constellation Cygnus
• Pelicans (ice hockey), a Finnish ice-hockey team playing in the national elite league SM-liiga
• An antiquated nickname for an inhabitant of Gibraltar
• Pelican (Fabergé egg), a jewelled Easter egg
• A piece of scientific apparatus used for distillation, which resembles the bird in form.

See also

• Pelikan (disambiguation)