Lilliput
Appearance
Lilliput is an island nation in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels.
Lilliput may also refer to:
Geography
[edit]- Lilliput (townland), a townland in County Westmeath, Ireland
- Lilliput, Dorset, 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
Art, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Lilliput and Blefuscu, two island nations in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735)
Publications
[edit]- Lilliput (magazine), a British art and literature magazine
- Lilliput (play), 1756 play by David Garrick
Brands and enterprises
[edit]- Lilliput Lane, British company miniature models of English cottages and scenes
- Lilliput Kidswear, Indian clothing company
Other uses
[edit]- Lilliput (actor), actor and writer in Indian TV and film
- Lilliput effect, an effect where taxa show a decrease in body size after an extinction event
- Operation Lilliput, part of the Allied offensive in Papua in World War II
- Lilliput, is a tiny island kingdom in Gulliver's Travels
- Lilliput, a genus of jumping spiders that was renamed to Tanzania in 2008
- Lilliput longarm octopus a small species of octopus, scientific name Macrotritopus Defilippi
- Lilliput library, a form of public bookcase found in New Zealand
See also
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