Pickering may refer to:
Places
Antarctica
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Pickering Nunataks, Alexander Island
Australia
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Pickering, South Australia, the original name (1872–1940) of the town of Wool Bay
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Pickering Brook, Western Australia
Pickering Brook is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Kalamunda.
Prior to 1949 it was a stopping place on the Upper Darling Range Railway.
It was named after nearby Pickering Brook. The brook is named after an e ...
, Australia
Canada
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Pickering, Ontario
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Pickering Village, Ontario
England
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Pickering, North Yorkshire
Pickering is a market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district in North Yorkshire, England, on the border of the North York Moors National Park. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is at the foot of the moors, overloo ...
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Pickering Beck, North Yorkshire
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Vale of Pickering
The Vale of Pickering is a low-lying flat area of land in North Yorkshire, England. It is drained by the River Derwent. The landscape is rural with scattered villages and small market towns. It has been inhabited continuously from the Mesolithic ...
, North Yorkshire
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Lake Pickering, a former lake
United States
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Pickering, Missouri
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Pickerington, Ohio
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Pickering, Pennsylvania
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Pickering Township, Bottineau County, North Dakota
Pickering Township is a civil township in Bottineau County in the U.S. state of North Dakota. Its population was 193 as of the 2010 census, down from 213 at the 2000 census.
History
Pickering Township was organized sometime between 1910 and 19 ...
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Mount Pickering
Mount Pickering is a 13,474-foot-elevation (4,107 meter) mountain summit located just west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Tulare County, California. It is situated in Sequoia National Park, and is 3.1 miles (5.0&nbs ...
, California
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Pickering Creek, Pennsylvania, a tributary of the Schuylkill River
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Pickering Passage, Washington, a strait
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Fort Pickering
Fort Pickering is a 17th-century historic fort site on Winter Island in Salem, Massachusetts. Fort Pickering operated as a strategic coastal defense and military barracks for Salem Harbor during a variety of periods, serving as a fortification f ...
, Massachusetts, a 17th century fort on the National Register of Historic Places
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Fort Pickering (Memphis, Tennessee), a Confederate fort in the American Civil War
Outer space
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Pickering (lunar crater)
Pickering is a small lunar impact crater located to the northeast of the worn walled plain Hipparchus in the central region of the Moon. It was named after American astronomers Edward Charles Pickering and William Henry Pickering. It lies more t ...
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Pickering (Martian crater)
People and fictional characters
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Pickering (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
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Pickering Phipps, three related people in England in the 18th to 20th centuries
Schools
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Pickering College, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
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Pickering High School (disambiguation), several schools in various countries
Sports
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Pickering FC, a Canadian soccer team
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Pickering Panthers
The Pickering Panthers are a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Pickering, Ontario, Canada. They are a part of North Division of the Ontario Junior Hockey League.
History
In the summer of 2010, the Panthers accepted a merger with the Ajax Attack. ...
, a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Pickering, Ontario, Canada
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Pickering Town F.C., an English football team
Other uses
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Pickering's Defense, a chess opening
* , an American schooner
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Pickering House (disambiguation), several houses
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Pickering Operations Complex, a skyscraper on Pickering Street in Singapore
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Pickering Interfaces
Pickering Interfaces is a test and measurement company headquartered in Clacton-on-Sea, United Kingdom. Pickering designs, manufactures and markets a range of switching, simulation and cabling products in the LXI, PXI, and PCI platforms. These ...
, a British test and measurement company
* Pickering and Company, an American phonograph cartridge manufacturer, predecessor of
Stanton Magnetics
Stanton Magnetics, doing business as Stanton, is a business unit of inMusic Brands that designs and markets turntables, cartridges, DJ mixers, DJ media players, and DJ controllers.
History
Stanton Magnetics was founded in 1946 by Norman C ...
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Pickering baronets, two extinct titles, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, the other in the Baronetage of England
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Pickering Medal, a New Zealand honour for promoting commercial success
See also
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Pickering emulsion
A Pickering emulsion is an emulsion that is stabilized by solid particles (for example colloidal silica) which adsorb onto the interface between the water and oil phases. Typically, the emulsions are either water-in-oil or oil-in-water emulsions, ...
, an emulsion stabilized by solid particles
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Pickering scale, a rating of astronomical seeing
* "Pickering test" in First Amendment law - see ''
Pickering v. Board of Education
''Pickering v. Board of Education'', 391 U.S. 563 (1968), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that in the absence of proof of the teacher knowingly or recklessly making false statements the teacher had a right to speak o ...
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