Mackinac or Mackinaw may refer to:

Geography

Landforms

Straits of Mackinac, a waterway in the U.S. state of Michigan connecting two of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron and separating the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan Mackinac Island, an island in the Straits of Mackinac Mackinaw River, a tributary of the Illinois River in the U.S. state of Illinois Little Mackinaw River, a tributary of the Mackinaw River

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Populated areas

Mackinac County, Michigan

Mackinac Island, Michigan, the city on Mackinac Island

Mackinaw Township, Michigan, in Cheboygan County

Mackinaw City, Michigan, a village in Mackinaw Township

Mackinaw Township, Tazewell County, Illinois

Mackinaw, Illinois, a village in Mackinaw Township

Little Mackinaw Township, Tazewell County, Illinois

Mackinaw Historic District, a historic residential area in Franklin, Ohio

Structures and places

Mackinac Bridge, a bridge over the Straits of Mackinac

Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, a lighthouse in Mackinaw City

Fort Mackinac, a British, later American, fort on Mackinac Island

Mackinac Island State Park, a state park on Mackinac Island

Straits of Mackinac Shipwreck Preserve, a state-designated preservation area within much of the Straits of Mackinac Mackinac Wilderness, a designated area within the Hiawatha National Forest in Mackinac County, Michigan Mackinac Trail (or Mackinaw Trail), two related, but separate, roadways in Michigan Mackinac Trail – Carp River Bridge, a bridge along the Mackinac Trail over the Carp River in Mackinac County Mackinaw State Forest, a state-owned forested area in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan Mackinaw River State Fish and Wildlife Area, a state park in Tazewell County, Illinois, bisected by the Mackinaw River

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Corporations and organizations

Mackinac Island State Park Commission, an appointed board that administers state parklands in the Straits of Mackinac area Mackinac Transportation Company, a train ferry service that shuttled railroad cars across the Straits of Mackinac from 1882 until 1984 Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railroad, a railroad that formerly operated in Ohio and Michigan Detroit and Mackinac Railway, a railroad that formerly operated in Michigan Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research and educational organization advocating free-market policies Mackinac Financial Corporation, a bank holding company

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Ships

USCGC Mackinac, several ships of the United States Coast Guard

USCGC Mackinaw, several ships of the United States Coast Guard

USRC Mackinac (1903) or USCGC Mackinac, a patrol boat

USS Mackinac, several ships of the United States Navy

USS Mackinaw, a United States Navy gunboat commissioned twice between 1864 and 1867

Sailing

Mackinaw boat, a type of small sailboat used in the Upper Great Lakes

Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race

Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac

Other uses

Mackinaw cloth, a heavy and dense water-repellent woolen cloth

Mackinaw jacket, a short double-breasted wool coat

Mackinaw trout or Lake trout

Mackinac Rendezvous, an annual Boy Scouts of America event held in the Straits of Mackinac area Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference (also known as the Midwest Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference), a biannual political conference held on Mackinac Island Mackinac Policy Conference, an annual political and economic conference held on Mackinac Island Mackinac Island meteorite, a meteorite found on the planet Mars by the Opportunity rover on October 13, 2009

See also

Mackinawite, an iron nickel sulfide mineral

Michilimackinac, a former term for the entire region around the Straits of Mackinac Fort Michilimackinac, a French, later British, fort and trading post on the northern tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula at the Straits of Mackinac Mékinac (disambiguation)