title: Wollaston
text: # Wollaston
  
  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, Western Australia
  * Wollaston Island (Western Australia), off the coast of Kimberley
  
  ### Canada
  
  * Wollaston, Ontario, a township
  * Wollaston Islands (Nunavut)
  * Wollaston Peninsula, split between Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada
  * Wollaston Lake, lake in north-eastern Saskatchewan
     * Wollaston Lake Airport
  * Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan, a village
  
  ### Chile
  
  * Wollaston Islands, group of islands near Cape Horn
  
  ### England
  
  * Wollaston, Northamptonshire
     * Wollaston School
  * Wollaston, Shropshire
  * Wollaston, West Midlands
  
  ### Greenland
  
  * Wollaston Foreland, peninsula in Northeast Greenland
  
  ### United States
  
  * Wollaston (Quincy, Massachusetts), neighborhood in Quincy, Massachusetts
     * Wollaston (MBTA station), MBTA station
     * Wollaston Beach, public beach
     * Wollaston Theatre, historic building
  * Mount Wollaston, 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) (1762–1823)
  * George Wollaston (1738–1826), Fellow of the Royal Society
  * Gerald Wollaston (1874–1957), officer of arms at the College of Arms in London
  * Sir Harry Wollaston (1846–1921), Australian public servant
  * James Wollaston (1873–1918), English footballer, played for Small Heath
  * John Wollaston (clergyman) (1791–1856), Anglican clergyman in Western Australia
  * John Wollaston (painter), English-born American portraitist
  * Richard Wollaston, English sea captain and pirate
  * Sandy Wollaston (1875–1930), British explorer
  * Dr Sarah Wollaston (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, 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 (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, species of bat in the family Hipposideridae
  