Golden Fleece (disambiguation)

Golden Fleece is an element of Greek mythology.

Golden Fleece can also refer to:

Places

• Golden Fleece Mine (Colorado), famous gold mine in Hinsdale County
• Golden Fleece Inn, York, English inn

Companies

• Golden Fleece (Petroleum), defunct Australian retail fuel chain
• Golden Fleece, shortcut for designation of Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa) on stock exchange

Transportation

• LNER Class A4 steam locomotive number 4495, originally named Great Snipe, later Golden Fleece
• Golden Fleece (clipper), 1855 California clipper that caught fire with a cargo of ice
• Golden Fleece (pirate ship), the pirate ship captained by Joseph Bannister in the late 1600s, later rediscovered in 2008 or 2009

Literature and art

• Golden Fleece, a science fiction novel by the Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer.
• The golden fleece, an 1892 novel by Julian Hawthorne.
• The Golden Fleece (painting), an 1894 painting by Australian artist Tom Roberts

Awards and honorifics

• Golden Fleece Award, an ironic American political award
• Order of the Golden Fleece, an order of chivalry founded in Bruges by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy in 1430
• Order of the Golden Fleece (Georgia), a civil award of Georgia

Other

• Golden Fleece (horse), an Irish racehorse
• Goldenfleece, a species of plant
• Operation Golden Fleece, a humanitarian mission by Greece to rescue native Greeks from the war in Abkhazia
• Operation Golden Fleece, a 1993 non-combatant evacuation operation of the Hellenic Navy in Georgia

See also

• The Golden Fleecing (disambiguation)
• Golden ram (disambiguation)