Wollaston

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Wollaston may refer to:

[edit] Places

[edit] Australia

• John Wollaston Anglican Community School, private school in Kelmscott, Perth, Western Australia
• Wollaston, Western Australia, suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia

[edit] Canada

• Wollaston Lake, lake in north-eastern Saskatchewan
  • Wollaston Lake Airport

[edit] Chile

• Wollaston Islands, group of islands near Cape Horn

[edit] England

• Wollaston, Northamptonshire
• Wollaston, Shropshire
• Wollaston, West Midlands

[edit] United States

• Mount Wollaston, neighborhood in Quincy, Massachusetts
  • Wollaston (MBTA Station), MBTA station
  • Wollaston Beach, public beach

[edit] Moon

• Wollaston (crater), lunar crater.

[edit] People

• Belinda Wollaston (b. 1983), Australian musical theatre actor
• Charles Wollaston (1849-1926), English footballer
• Charlton Wollaston (1733-1764), English physician
• Francis Wollaston (Scientist) (1694-1774)
• Francis Wollaston (Priest and Astronomer)(1737-1815)
• George Wollaston (1738-1828), Fellow of the Royal Society
• Gerald Wollaston (1874-1957), officer of arms at the College of Arms in London
• John Wollaston (1790-1856), Anglican clergyman in Western Australia
• Sandy Wollaston (1875-1930), British explorer
• Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822-1878), English entomologist and malacologist
• William Wollaston (1659-1724), English philosophical writer
• William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1733) (1693-1757)
• William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768) (1731-1797)
• William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), English chemist, physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Wollaston Medal, awarded for work in geology
• Wollaston prism, optical device, invented by William Hyde Wollaston
• Wollaston wire, a very fine platinum wire
• Wollaston's Roundleaf Bat, species of bat in the Hipposideridae family