Pelican
Pelican is a small town in the northwestern part of Chichagof Island in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Pelican was founded in 1938 by fish buyer Charlie Raatikainen who established the town as a business venture to support his fish processing company.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 98 residents
- Description: city in Alaska, United States
- Also known as: “K’udeis‘ X’e”, “Pelican City”, “Pelican, AK”, and “Pelican, Alaska”
- Postal code: 99832
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pelican Seaplane Base.
Pelican Seaplane Base
Aerodrome
Pelican Seaplane Base is a public-use seaplane base located in and owned by the City of Pelican, on Chichagof Island in the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Pelican
- Categories: city in the United States, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Hoonah-Angoon, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
57.95721° or 57° 57′ 26″ northLongitude
-136.22068° or 136° 13′ 14″ westPopulation
98Elevation
344 feet (105 metres)IATA airport code
PECUnited Nations Location Code
US PECOpen location code
9495XQ4H+VPOpenStreetMap ID
node 150921600OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5556304Wikidata ID
Q80039
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Volapük—“Pelican” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Pelican, Alaska”
- Albanian: “Pelican”
- Arabic: “بيليكان”
- Basque: “K’udeis’x̱‘e”
- Basque: “Pelican”
- Catalan: “Pelican”
- Cebuano: “Pelican”
- Chechen: “Пеликан”
- Chinese: “Pelican”
- Chinese: “佩利肯”
- Czech: “Pelican”
- Danish: “Pelican”
- Dutch: “Pelican”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيليكان”
- French: “Pelican”
- German: “Pelican”
- Gilaki: “پلیکن”
- Haitian: “Pelican”
- Irish: “Pelican”
- Italian: “Pelican”
- Japanese: “ペリカン”
- Ladin: “Pelican”
- Malagasy: “Pelican, Alaska”
- Malagasy: “Pelican”
- Malayalam: “പെലിക്കൻ, അലാസ്ക”
- Malayalam: “പെലിക്കൻ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pelican”
- Newari: “पेलिकन (अलास्का)”
- Newari: “पेलिकन, अलास्का”
- Newari: “पेलिकन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pelican”
- Norwegian: “Pelican”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pelican”
- Persian: “پلیکان، آلاسکا”
- Persian: “پلیکان، الاسکا”
- Persian: “پلیکان”
- Polish: “Pelican”
- Portuguese: “Pelican”
- Russian: “Пеликан”
- Serbian: “Пеликан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pelican, Alaska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pelican”
- Slovak: “Pelican”
- South Azerbaijani: “پلیکان، آلاسکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “پلیکان”
- Spanish: “Pelican (Alaska)”
- Spanish: “Pelican”
- Tatar: “Пеликан”
- Ukrainian: “Пелікан”
- Uzbek: “Pelican”
- Volapük: “Pelican”
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