# Pelican (disambiguation)

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

* HMS Pelican, many British Royal Navy ships
* USS Pelican, several United States Navy ships
* USFS Pelican, a US government research vessel, later the fishery patrol vessel US FWS Pelican
* Golden Hind or Pelican, 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 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