Humboldt

Humboldt may refer to:

People

• Alexander von Humboldt, German natural scientist, brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist, philosopher, and diplomat, brother of Alexander von Humboldt

Places

Argentina

• Humboldt, Argentina, a town in Santa Fe Province

Australia

• Humboldt, Queensland, a locality in the Central Highlands Region

Canada

• Humboldt, Saskatchewan
• Rural Municipality of Humboldt No. 370, Saskatchewan
• Humboldt (federal electoral district), a former federal electoral district
• Humboldt (provincial electoral district), a former Saskatchewan provincial electoral district

United States

• Humboldt, Illinois
• Humboldt, Iowa
• Humboldt, Kansas
• Humboldt, Minnesota
• Humboldt, Nebraska
• Humboldt, Ohio
• Humboldt, Portland, Oregon
• Humboldt, Pennsylvania
• Humboldt, South Dakota
• Humboldt, Tennessee
• Humboldt, Wisconsin, a town
  • Humboldt (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community within the town
• Humboldt County, California
• Humboldt County, Iowa
• Humboldt County, Nevada
• Humboldt Township (disambiguation)
• Humboldt City, Nevada, ruins of a mining settlement
• Humboldt Industrial Area, Minneapolis
• Humboldt Park, Chicago, a Chicago community area

Geographical features

Mountains

• Humboldt Mountains (Antarctica), Queen Maud Land
• Humboldt Mountains (New Zealand), Otago
• Humboldt Peak (Colorado), United States
• Humboldt Peak (Nevada), United States
• Humboldt Range, Nevada
• Pico Humboldt, Venezuela

Parks, forests, nature preserves in the United States

• Fort Humboldt State Historic Park, Eureka, California
• Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, California
• Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California
• Humboldt Park (Chicago park), Illinois
• Humboldt Wildlife Management Area, Nevada
• Humboldt Park, now Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, Buffalo, New York
• Humboldt Parkway, Buffalo, New York, repurposed

Water and ice features

United States

• Humboldt Bay, California
• Humboldt River, Nevada
• Humboldt Salt Marsh, Nevada
• Humboldt Sink, Nevada
• Lake Humboldt, Nevada

Elsewhere

• Humboldt Current, Pacific Ocean
• Humboldt Glacier, Greenland
• Humboldt Bay, aka Yos Sudarso Bay, New Guinea
• Humboldt Falls, Fiordland, New Zealand

Other geographical features

• Sima Humboldt, Venezuela, a sinkhole

Organizations and institutions in Germany

• Humboldtschule, Bad Homburg, a German Gymnasium in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse
• Humboldt Box, a museum and information center in Berlin, Germany
• For 60 years (1949-2009), Humboldt Museum was a popular name referring to the Berlin's Natural History Museum, in Germany
• Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
• Maschinenbau Anstalt Humboldt, mechanical engineering firm in Cologne-Kalk 1871–1930

Animals

• Vesper bat (Humboldt's big-eared brown bat) (Histiotus humboldti)
• Woolly monkey (Humboldt's woolly monkey) (Lagothrix lagotricha)
• Squirrel monkey (Humboldt's squirrel monkey) (Saimiri sciureus cassiquiarensis)
• Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti)
• Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus humboldtii)
• Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas)

Schools in the United States

• California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, California
• Humboldt High School (disambiguation), several high schools

Ships

• USS Humboldt, a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1941 to 1947, later USCGC Humboldt, a United States Coast Guard cutter in commission from 1949 to 1969
• Humboldt (steamer), an 1896 wooden steamer on the Alaska route

In space

• 4877 Humboldt, an asteroid
• Humboldt (crater) on the Moon

Transportation

Canada

• Humboldt Airport, Saskatchewan
• Humboldt station (Saskatchewan), a former railway station in Humboldt, Saskatchewan

United States

• Humboldt Municipal Airport (Iowa), Humboldt, Iowa
• Humboldt Municipal Airport (Tennessee), Humboldt, Tennessee
• Humboldt–Hospital station, a Buffalo Metro Rail station in Buffalo, New York
• Humboldt Street (LIRR station), a Long Island Rail Road station in Brooklyn, New York

Other uses

• Humboldt Prize, for research
• Humboldt Industrial Area, Minneapolis
• Humboldt Industrial Park (Hazleton, Pennsylvania)
• Humboldt Broncos, an ice hockey team based in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Hotel Humboldt, in El Ávila National Park, Caracas, Venezuela
• Humboldt Fleisher, a fictional character in the novel Humboldt's Gift
• Wes Humboldt, a fictional character in the television series Corner Gas

See also

• Alexander von Humboldt (disambiguation)
• Von Humboldt, a list of people with the surname