Coniston may refer to:
Australia
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Coniston (Northern Territory)
Coniston is a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia in central Australia and is located about 250 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs,
Coniston is best known as the site of the Coniston massacre, which was the last known ...
, a cattle station
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Coniston massacre
The Coniston massacre, which took place in the region around the Coniston cattle station in the then Territory of Central Australia (now the Northern Territory) from 14 August to 18 October 1928, was the last known officially sanctioned massa ...
, 1928
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Coniston, New South Wales
Coniston ( ), is a suburb of Wollongong in New South Wales. At the , it had a population of 2,268.
Coniston is just north of the Port Kembla Steelworks and includes the Greenhouse Park, a one time waste pile converted into a natural park area ...
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Coniston railway station, New South Wales
Coniston is an intercity train station located in Coniston, New South Wales, Australia, on the South Coast railway line. The station serves NSW TrainLink trains travelling south to Port Kembla or Kiama and north to Wollongong and Sydney.
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Coniston, Tasmania, a town in the
Derwent Valley
United Kingdom
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Coniston, East Riding of Yorkshire
Coniston is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately north-east of Hull city centre and less than north-east of the village of Ganstead. It lies on the ...
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Coniston Cold
Coniston Cold is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the Staincliffe Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village lies north-west of Skipton along the A65.
According ...
, North Yorkshire
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Coniston, Cumbria, a village
*Coniston Fells, a chain of hills and mountains in the
Furness Fells, in the Lake District
**Coniston Old Man (also called the
Old Man of Coniston), the highest peak in the Coniston Fells
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Coniston Water
Coniston Water in the English county of Cumbria is the third-largest lake in the Lake District by volume (after Windermere and Ullswater), and the fifth-largest by area. It is five miles long by half a mile wide (8 km by 800 m), has a ...
, a lake in the Lake District
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Coniston Limestone
The Dent Group is a group of Upper Ordovician sedimentary and volcanic rocks in north-west England. It is the lowermost part of the Windermere Supergroup, which was deposited in the foreland basin formed during the collision between Laurentia and ...
, the sedimentary rock formation around Coniston, Cumbria.
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Coniston Group
The Coniston Group is a Silurian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in the southern Lake District and north-west Pennines of northern England. The name is derived from the small town of Coniston in Cumbria. The rocks of the ...
, a lithographic group named after Coniston, Cumbria.
United States
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Coniston, California
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''Coniston'' (novel), by American writer Winston Churchill
Canada
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Coniston, Ontario
Nickel Centre (1996 census population 13,017) was a town in Ontario, Canada, which existed from 1973 to 2000.
It was created as part of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury. On January 1, 2001, the town and the Regional Municipality were dissolve ...
, Canada
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Conistone
Conistone is a small village in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies north of Grassington, south of Kettlewell and north of Skipton beside the River Wharfe, in Upper Wharfedale.
History
Conistone is mentioned in the Do ...
, a village in Yorkshire, England
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