Half Moon

Half Moon, Halfmoon, half-moon, or Halve Maen may refer to:

• First quarter or last quarter lunar phase

Food

• Half-moons or black and white cookies
• Half-moon cookie (Philippines), a semicircular or crescent-shaped butter cookie

Places

• Half Moon Island, one of the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica
• Halfmoon, New York, a municipality in Saratoga County
• Half Moon, North Carolina
• Half Moon (Washington), a mountain in the Cascade Range

Pubs

• Half Moon, Herne Hill, a pub and music venue in London
• The Half Moon, Putney, a pub and music venue in London

Vehicles

• Half Moon (shipwreck), a German sailboat that sank off the coast of Florida in 1930
• Halve Maen, a Dutch East India Company flyboat with which Henry Hudson explored parts of North America
• USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378), later WHEC-378, a United States Coast Guard cutter in commission from 1948 to 1969
• USS Half Moon (AVP-26), a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1943 to 1946

Other uses

• Half Moon (film), a 2006 Iranian film by Bahman Ghobadi
• Half Moon (lacrosse), First Nations lacrosse player
• Halfmoon or Medialuna californiensis, a sea chub native to the Pacific Ocean
• Halve Maen (Efteling), a ship swing in the Efteling theme park in the Netherlands
• Half Moon Festival, a bi-monthly event on Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand
• Half Moon Run, a Canadian indie rock group
• Ardha chandrasana or Half Moon Pose, a yoga asana
• a code name for the first-generation prototype Oculus Touch virtual reality motion controllers
• the supposed stage name of Beta from The Walking Dead

See also

• Half Moon Bay (disambiguation), the name of various crescent-shaped bays
• Lunar phase
• Lunula (anatomy)