Chinook

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Chinook may refer to:

Chinook peoples

The name derives from a settlement of Indigenous people in Oregon and Washington State.

  • Chinookan peoples, several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest
  • Chinookan languages, small family of languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples
    • Chinook Jargon, a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest
    • Lower Chinook, a Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River
    • Upper Chinook language, a recently extinct language of the US Pacific Northwest

Places

  • Chinook, a Martian crater at 22.7°N 55.5°W
  • Chinook (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Alberta
  • Chinook, Alberta, a hamlet in Canada
  • Peregrino (previously Chinook), an oil field located offshore of Brazil, east of Rio de Janeiro

United States

  • Chinook, Montana, a city in and the county seat of Blaine County

Washington state

  • Chinook Pass, through the Cascade Range
  • Chinook Peak, a summit located on the eastern border of Mount Rainier National Park
  • Chinook, Washington, a census-designated place (CDP) in Pacific County
  • Washington State Route 410 (also the Chinook Scenic Byway), a 107.44-mile long state highway

Animals

  • Chinook (dog), a breed of sled dog
  • Chinook salmon the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon

Plants

  • Chinook cherry, a cross between Bing and Gil Peck cultivars
  • Chinook olives, urine-cured olives by Indigenous people of the Columbia river valley

Transport

  • Avro Canada Chinook, Canada's first turbojet engine
  • Chinook station, a CTrain light rail station in Manchester, Calgary, Alberta

Aircraft

  • Air-Sport Chinook, Polish single-place paraglider
  • Birdman Chinook, a family of single and two-place, pusher configuration, high-wing ultralight aircraft
  • Boeing CH-47 Chinook, a tandem-rotor helicopter
  • Hermanspann Chinook, an American mid-wing, two-seat, experimental research glider
  • Meadowcroft Chinook, a two-seat mid-winged American homebuilt aircraft
  • Wings of Change Chinhook Bi, an Austrian two-place paraglider

Watercraft

  • USS Chinook (PC-9), the ninth Cyclone-class patrol ship of the United States Navy
  • USS Chinook (SP-644), a United States Navy patrol vessel
  • MV Golden Gate (previously Chinook), a passenger-only fast ferry

Other

  • Chinook, the first Canadian exclusive geographic Beanie Baby
  • The Chinook, weekly newspaper in South Vancouver founded by George Matheson Murray
  • Chinook (computer program), draughts player
  • Chinook (newspaper), a counterculture underground newspaper published weekly in Denver, Colorado
  • Chinook Sciences, a technology company that specializes in waste to energy and metal recovery
  • Chinook wind, two types of prevailing warm, generally westerly winds in western North America
  • Chinook Wines, a Washington winery located in the Yakima Valley AVA
  • Billy Chinook (c. 1827 – 1890), chief and member of the Wasco tribe
  • Lakeshore Chinooks, a baseball team based in Mequon, Wisconsin

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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