Lilliput

Lilliput may refer to:

Geography
  • Lilliput, Poole, a district in the town of Poole in Dorset, United Kingdom
  • Lilliput Glacier, the smallest named glacier in the Sierra Nevada of California
  • Lilliput Mountain, a mountain on the British Columbia-Alberta border in the Canadian Rockies
  • Lilliput Nunataks, three nunataks on the eastern side of Graham Land, Antarctica
  • Lilliput, Victoria, a parish in the County of Bogong, Victoria, Australia.

People

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional places
  • Lilliput and Blefuscu, two island nations in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735)
  • Lilliput Steps, an area in the Super Nintendo role-playing video game EarthBound

Publications

Brands and enterprises

Healthcare and science
  • Lilliput, a genus of jumping spiders that was renamed to Tanzania in 2008
  • Lilliputian hallucinations, another name for Alice in Wonderland syndrome
  • Square-cube law, also called Physics of Lilliput

Military
  • Operation Lilliput, the convoy scheme supporting the 1942 Allied offensive in the Buna–Gona–Sanananda area of Papua from Milne Bay
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See also
  • Liliput (disambiguation)
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