Chinook

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
  • Chinook Indian Nation, an organization representing the western tribes of Chinookan peoples
• 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

Transport

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

Aircraft

• 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

• All pages with titles containing Chinook
• Chinook Centre, the largest shopping mall in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Chinook Park, Calgary, a residential neighbourhood
• Chrysotoxum chinook, a species of syrphid fly