Esk
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Esk or ESK may refer to:
  • River Esk (disambiguation) - several rivers
  • Esk, Queensland
    Esk, Queensland
    Esk is a town in the West Moreton region of South East Queensland, approximately 90 km northwest of Ipswich on the Brisbane Valley Highway. It was named after the River Esk in Scotland and England. It is the administrative centre of the Somerset Region...

    , town in Australia
    • Shire of Esk
      Shire of Esk
      The Shire of Esk was a Local Government Area in South East Queensland, Australia, located about west-northwest of Brisbane. It stretched from the Lockyer Valley north and west to the Great Dividing Range and up the valley of the Brisbane River...

      , local government area in Queensland
  • HMS Esk
    HMS Esk
    HMS Esk may refer to one of the following Royal Navy ships named Esk after a Celtic word meaning a river:, a 20-gun post ship launched in 1813. She was sold in 1829., a wood screw corvette launched in 1854. She was broken up in 1870., an iron screw gunboat launched in 1877. She was sold in 1903., a...

     - several ships
  • Elbe-Seitenkanal
    Elbe-Seitenkanal
    The Elbe Lateral Canal, or the Elbe-Seitenkanal in German, is a long canal in Lower Saxony, Germany. It runs from the Elbe near Lauenburg/Elbe to the Mittelland Canal near Gifhorn. It forms an important transport connection between southern and northern Germany, and it provides a bypass of a...

    , canal in Germany
  • The girl wizard who is the main character of Terry Pratchett
    Terry Pratchett
    Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...

    's novel Equal Rites
    Equal Rites
    Equal Rites is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the third novel in the Discworld series and the first in which the main character is not Rincewind. The title is a play on words to "Equal Rights"....

    , whose full name is Eskarina Smith.
  • Economics of scientific knowledge (ESK)
    Economics of scientific knowledge
    The economics of scientific knowledge is an approach to understanding science which is predicated on the need to understand scientific knowledge creation and dissemination in economic terms. The approach has been developed as a contrast to the sociology of scientific knowledge which places...


See also

  • Esk Brewery, former name of Boag's Brewery, Tasmania, Australia
  • Esk Island, one of the Whitsunday Islands, off Queensland, Australia
  • SkyEurope
    SkyEurope
    SkyEurope Airlines was a low-cost airline headquartered in Bratislava, with its main base at M. R. Štefánik Airport in Bratislava, Slovakia, and another base in Prague. The carrier filed for bankruptcy on 31 August 2009 and suspended all flights on 1 September 2009...

     (ICAO code ESK)
  • North Esk (disambiguation)
  • South Esk (disambiguation)
  • Celtic place name origins
  • ESK is also the name of a Southern California clothing company.
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