Wollaston may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

* Cape Wollaston, Palmer Archipelago

Australia

* John Wollaston Anglican Community School, private school in Kelmscott, Perth, Western Australia *

Wollaston, Western Australia East Bunbury is an inner southeastern List of Bunbury suburbs, suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia, Bunbury, Western Australia from the Bunbury, Western Australia (suburb), centre of Bunbury. It is located within the Local government areas of ...

, suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia *

Wollaston Island (Western Australia) Wollaston Island is an island off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. The island is at the northern end of the Bonaparte Archipelago in Montague Sound approximately offshore from the mainland. The island occupies an area of . Threate ...

, off the coast of Kimberley

Canada

Wollaston, Ontario Wollaston is an incorporated township (Canada), township in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. The township had a population of 670 in the Canada 2016 Census. Property taxes provide the primary source of income for the township accounting for 61% ...

, a township *

Wollaston Islands (Nunavut) The Wollaston Islands are uninhabited members of the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. Located on the east side of the mouth of Navy Board Inlet, the island group is closer to Bylot Island than to Baffin Island. References Exter ...

Wollaston Peninsula The Wollaston Peninsula (previously, Wollaston Land) is a west-pointing peninsula located on southwestern Victoria Island, Canada. It is bordered by Prince Albert Sound to the north, Amundsen Gulf to the west and Dolphin and Union Strait to the ...

, split between Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada * Wollaston Lake, lake in north-eastern Saskatchewan ** Wollaston Lake Airport *

Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan Wollaston may refer to: Places Antarctica * Cape Wollaston, Palmer Archipelago Australia * John Wollaston Anglican Community School, private school in Kelmscott, Perth, Western Australia * Wollaston, Western Australia, suburb of Bunbury, We ...

, a village

Chile

* Wollaston Islands, group of islands near Cape Horn

England

Wollaston, Northamptonshire Wollaston is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England, about south of the market town of Wellingborough. The 2011 census recorded the population of the parish, including Strixton, as 3,491. Wollaston is from above sea le ...

Wollaston School Wollaston School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Wollaston in the English county of Northamptonshire. The Wollaston School catchment area includes the villages of Bozeat, Brafield-on-the-Green, Castle Ashby, Chad ...

Wollaston, Shropshire Wollaston is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Alberbury with Cardeston, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England, only a quarter of a mile from the Welsh border. In 2001 the parish h ...

Wollaston, West Midlands Wollaston is a village on the outskirts of Stourbridge in the English West Midlands. It is located in the south of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, one mile from Stourbridge town centre. History Until 1974 when the West Midlands Metropolitan ...

Greenland

* Wollaston Foreland, peninsula in Northeast Greenland

United States

* Wollaston (Quincy, Massachusetts), neighborhood in Quincy, Massachusetts ** Wollaston (MBTA station), MBTA station **

Wollaston Beach Wollaston Beach is the largest public beach in the Boston harbor. The beach is located parallel to Quincy Shore Drive in North Quincy, Massachusetts, which was constructed to provide access to the bay beach for Greater Boston. Wollaston beach exp ...

, public beach **

Wollaston Theatre The Wollaston Theatre was a historic theater at 14 Beale Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It was built in 1926 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. In recent decades, the "Wolly" was a second-run discount movie house run ...

, historic building *

Mount Wollaston Quincy ( ) is a coastal U.S. city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest city in the county and a part of Metropolitan Boston as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2020 was 101,636, making ...

, various locations in Quincy, Massachusetts

Moon

* Wollaston (crater), lunar crater

People

* Arthur Wollaston (1865–1933), English footballer, played for Aston Villa * Sir Arthur Naylor Wollaston KCIE (1842–1922), Superintendent of Records, India Office * Belinda Wollaston (born 1983), Australian musical theatre actor * Charles Wollaston (1849–1926), English footballer, played for Wanderers and England * Charlton Wollaston (1733–1764), English physician * Charlton James Wollaston, English, of ''Wollaston et Compagnie'', building the first international submarine telegraph cable (Dover-Calais) in 1851 with engineer Thomas Russell Crampton * Francis Wollaston (scientist) (1694–1774) * Francis Wollaston (astronomer) (1731–1815) *

Francis Wollaston (philosopher) Francis John Hyde Wollaston FRS (13 April 1762, London – 12 October 1823) was an English natural philosopher and Jacksonian Professor at the University of Cambridge. Life Francis John Hyde Wollaston was the son of Francis Wollaston (1731–1 ...

(1762–1823) *

George Wollaston George Wollaston (1738–1826) was an English Anglican priest. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to indiv ...

(1738–1826), Fellow of the Royal Society *

Gerald Wollaston Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston (2 June 1874 – 4 March 1957) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Wollaston's family had a firm tradition at the College of Arms. Wollaston's great-grandfather was Sir William Woods, G ...

(1874–1957), officer of arms at the College of Arms in London * Sir Harry Wollaston (1846–1921), Australian public servant *

James Wollaston James Wollaston (1873 – December 1918) was an English footballer who played in the Football Alliance for Small Heath. Wollaston was born in the Hall Green district of Birmingham and played local football before spending a few weeks with Small ...

(1873–1918), English footballer, played for Small Heath *

John Wollaston (clergyman) John Ramsden Wollaston (28 March 1791 – 3 May 1856) was an Anglican priest who was instrumental in the establishment of the Church of England in Western Australia. Wollaston was born in London and educated at Charterhouse School where his ...

(1791–1856), Anglican clergyman in Western Australia * John Wollaston (painter), English-born American portraitist *

Richard Wollaston Richard Wollaston (died March 17, 1626) was an English sea captain and pirate who was one of the first colonists in New England and the namesake of Wollaston (Quincy, Massachusetts) and Mount Wollaston. Some historians believe that Wollaston was ...

, English sea captain and pirate *

Sandy Wollaston Alexander Frederick Richmond "Sandy" Wollaston (22 May 1875, Clifton, Gloucestershire – 3 June 1930, Cambridge) was an English medical doctor, ornithologist, botanist, climber and explorer. After qualifying as a surgeon in 1903, Wollaston deci ...

(1875–1930), British explorer * Dr

Sarah Wollaston Sarah Wollaston (born 17 February 1962) is a British former Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Totnes from 2010 to 2019. First elected for the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, she later served as ...

(born 1962), British general practitioner and MP for Totnes (2010–2019) * Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822–1878), English entomologist and malacologist * Tullie Cornthwaite Wollaston, opal dealer credited with introducing the claret ash to Australia at

Raywood, Aldgate Raywood, formerly named Arbury Park, is a property in the w:Adelaide Hills, Adelaide Hills, w:South Australia, South Australia. The 17-room Georgian-style house was constructed in 1935 to designs by Kenneth Milne for noted South Australian and Fe ...

, SA * William Wollaston (1659–1724), English philosophical writer * William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1733) (1693–1764) * William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768) (1730–1797) *

William Hyde Wollaston William Hyde Wollaston (; 6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum ore into malleable ingo ...

(1766–1828), English chemist, physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society

Other

* Wollaston Medal, awarded for work in geology * Wollaston prism, optical device, invented by William Hyde Wollaston *

Wollaston's roundleaf bat Wollaston's roundleaf bat (''Hipposideros wollastoni'') is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is found in West Papua (region), West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It was named after the explorer Sandy Wollaston. Taxonomy an ...

, species of bat in the family Hipposideridae