The

elk The elk (''Cervus canadensis''), also known as the wapiti, is one of the largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia. The common ...

(''Cervus canadensis'') is a large antlered mammal within the deer family. Elk may also refer to:

Wildlife

Eurasian elk The moose (in North America) or elk (in Eurasia) (''Alces alces'') is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the only species in the genus ''Alces''. It is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family. Most adult ma ...

or moose (''Alces alces''), the largest extant species in the deer family * Irish elk (''Megaloceros giganteus'', extinct), one of the largest deer that ever lived *

Whooper swan The whooper swan ( /ˈhuːpə(ɹ) swɒn/) (''Cygnus cygnus''), also known as the common swan, pronounced ''hooper swan'', is a large northern hemisphere swan. It is the Eurasian counterpart of the North American trumpeter swan, and the type specie ...

or elk, a large Northern Hemisphere swan

Arts and entertainment

* Elk (''.hack''), a character in the ''.hack'' alternative history franchise * ''Elk'' (album), 2005, by Inga Liljeström * ''Elk'' (Milwaukee sculpture), a 1901 public artwork * E L K, èlk or ELK, Australian hip hop artist on the

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Thompson Elk Fountain ''Thompson Elk Fountain'', also known as the David P. Thompson Fountain,. David P. Thompson Monument, Elk Fountain, the Thompson Elk, or simply ''Elk'', is a historic fountain and bronze sculpture by American artist Roland Hinton Perry. The fount ...

, an outdoor fountain in Portland, Oregon, by Roland Hinton Perry

Places

* Ełk, a town in northeastern Poland *

Elk, Fresno County, California The Valley Division of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ran from San Francisco to Barstow in California. It is now part of the BNSF Railway's Stockton Subdivision and Bakersfield Subdivision.

Elk, Mendocino County, California Elk (formerly Greenwood and Elk River) is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California. It is located south of Fort Bragg, at an elevation of 135 feet (41 m). Elk has a population of 208. It is located on the coast at the crossr ...

Elk, Kansas Elk is a ghost town in Chase and Marion counties in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is currently a ghost town that lays along Middle Creek northwest of Elmdale and straddled the county line between Chase and Marion County.''Marion County Kansas : ...

Elk, Ohio Elk is an unincorporated community in Noble County, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 ...

* Elk City, Oklahoma *

Elk, Washington Elk is an unincorporated rural community in northern Spokane County, Washington, United States. There is also a VFW, Volunteer Fire Station, and other amenities. During the summer Elk holds Elk Days, when it celebrates Fathers' Day and the commu ...

Elk, West Virginia Elk is an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers clas ...

* Elk, Wisconsin

Technology

* Extension Language Kit, an implementation of the Scheme programming language * ELK stack, a technology stack composed of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, now called Elastic Stack * Acorn Electron, nicknamed "Elk", an 8-bit microcomputer produced in the 1980s by British company Acorn Computers

Transportation

* Elk, a locomotive of the

South Devon Railway Eagle class The ''Eagle'' class were sixteen broad gauge locomotives operated on the South Devon Railway (SDR), Cornwall Railway (CR) and associated adjacent railways. They were designed for passenger trains on this steep and sharply curved line but were ...

* ''Elk'' (steam tug), formerly operated on Puget Sound * ''Elk'' (sternwheeler 1857), a steamboat

Other uses

* Elk (surname) *

Elk Mountains (Colorado) The Elk Mountains are a high, rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of west-central Colorado in the United States. The mountains sit on the western side of the Continental Divide, largely in southern Pitkin and northern Gunnison countie ...

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Elk v. Wilkins ''Elk v. Wilkins'', 112 U.S. 94 (1884), was a United States Supreme Court landmark 1884 decision respecting the citizenship status of Indians. John Elk, a Winnebago Indian, was born on an Indian reservation within the territorial bounds of Unite ...