Porcupine (disambiguation)

A porcupine is a mammal best known for its coat of sharp spines, or quills, that provides a defense from predators.

Porcupine may also refer to:

Biology

• Porcupine caribou, a subspecies of the caribou also called Grant's caribou
• Porcupine flower, a plant from India
• Porcupinefish, also commonly called blowfish
• Porcupine, a protein encoded by the PORCN gene

Places

• Porcupine Mountains, Michigan
• Porcupine Hills, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
• Porcupine Hills Formation, Alberta

Bodies of water

• Porcupine River, a river with its source in the Yukon that flows through Alaska
• Porcupine River (British Columbia), a tributary of the Stikine River in British Columbia
• Porcupine Creek, also known historically as the Porcupine River, a tributary of the Skagway River in Alaska
• Porcupine Bank, an area of seabed on the Irish shelf
  • Porcupine Seabight, a deep-water basin in the Porcupine Bank
  • Porcupine Abyssal Plain, an abyssal plain adjacent to the Irish continental margin

Parks

• Porcupine Provincial Forest, Saskatchewan
• Porcupine Provincial Forest (Manitoba), Manitoba
• Porcupine Flat Campground
• Porcupine Gorge National Park
• Porcupine Meadows Provincial Park, British Columbia

Towns

Australia

• Porcupine, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Flinders

Canada

• Porcupine, Ontario, a neighbourhood of Timmins
• Rural Municipality of Porcupine No. 395, Saskatchewan
  • Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan

United States

• Porcupine, North Dakota
• Porcupine, South Dakota
• Porcupine, Wisconsin

Other uses

• Porcupine (album), by Echo & the Bunnymen
• Porcupine (Cheyenne) (c. 1848-1929), a chief and medicine man
• Porcupine (comics), a fictional Marvel Comics character
• The Porcupine, a 1992 novel by Julian Barnes
• HMS Porcupine
• USS Porcupine (IX-126)
• AJS Porcupine, a racing motorcycle
• Porcupine Freedom Festival
• Porcupine Gold Rush
• A mascot of the Libertarian Party of the United States
• A participant in the Free State Project, an American political movement
• A nickname given to Larry Fine of The Three Stooges
• A nickname given to the 427 Chevrolet big-block