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)

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
  • , 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

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