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
• 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

• 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

1. Boeing CH-47 Chinook
2. Chinook salmon
3. Boeing Chinook (UK variants)
4. 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash
5. Chinook wind
6. Chinook (dog breed)
7. Chinook Jargon
8. Chinookan peoples
9. Chinook Centre
10. Chinookan languages
11. Lower Chinook
12. Chinook Pass
13. Chinook Sciences
14. Chinook helicopter crash
15. Birdman Chinook
16. Billy Chinook
17. Chinook (computer program)
18. Chinook, Washington
19. Chinook cherry
20. Henry Kroeger