Pickering may refer to:
Places
Antarctica
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Pickering Nunataks
Pickering Nunataks () is a group of nunataks lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of Mount Phoebe and on the northeast side of Saturn Glacier, near the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The nunataks were photographed by Linco ...
, 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, Australia
Canada
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Pickering, Ontario
Pickering (2021 Canadian census, 2021 population 99,186) is a city located in Southern Ontario, Canada, immediately east of Toronto in Durham Region, Ontario, Durham Region.
Beginning in the 1770s, the area was settled by primarily British colon ...
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Pickering Village, Ontario
England
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Pickering, North Yorkshire
Pickering is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, on the border of the North York Moors National Park. Historic counties of England, Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is at ...
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Pickering Lythe
Pickering Lythe was one of twelve wapentakes within the historical county of the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was recognised within the Domesday Book as ''Dic'', an area covering the Vale of Pickering, and swathes of land east towards ...
, a
wapentake
A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and in Cumberland County in the British Colony of ...
of Yorkshire
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Pickering Beck, North Yorkshire
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Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire
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Lake Pickering, a former lake
United States
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Pickering, Missouri
Pickering is a city in north central Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. The population was 149 at the 2020 census.
History
Pickering was laid out in 1871. The community was named by Josiah Coleman for Pickering Clark, a railroad man. A p ...
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Pickerington, Ohio
Pickerington is a city in Fairfield County, Ohio, Fairfield and Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin counties in the central region of the U.S. state of Ohio. It is a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, Columbus. The population was 23,094 at the United States Ce ...
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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, North Dakota, Bottineau County in the U.S. state of North Dakota. Its population was 193 as of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, down from 213 at the 2000 United States Census, ...
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Mount Pickering, 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 fortificatio ...
, Massachusetts, a 17th-century fort on the National Register of Historic Places
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Fort Pickering (Memphis, Tennessee)
Fort Pickering was built in Memphis Tennessee, by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. It was taken over by the Union Army to provide control of the Mississippi River south of the city.
300px, Fort Pickering Memphis Tennessee ...
, a Confederate fort in the American Civil War
Outer space
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Pickering (lunar crater)
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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) Pickering High School may refer to:
* Pickering High School, Ajax, Ontario
* Pickering High School (Louisiana), Leesville, Louisiana
* Pickering High School, Hull, England
{{schooldis ...
, several schools in various countries
Sports
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Pickering FC
Pickering Football Club, commonly known as Pickering FC, is a Canadian semi-professional association football, soccer club based in Pickering, Ontario that plays in League1 Ontario. The club was founded in 1984 as a youth soccer club and adde ...
, 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) Pickering House may refer to:
* I. O. Pickering House, Olathe, Kansas
* Pickering House (Salem, Massachusetts), NRHP-listed
* Pickering House (Victoria, Texas), NRHP-listed
* Pickering Farm, Issaquah, Washington
See also
* Adams-Pickering Block, B ...
, 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
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Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, a nuclear power plant in Canada
* 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
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Pickering Valley Railroad, a defunct railroad in Chester County, Pennsylvania
See also
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Pickering emulsion
A Pickering emulsion, sometimes named Ramsden 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 wate ...
, 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''
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