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

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