Pickering

Pickering may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

• Pickering Nunataks, Alexander Island

Australia

• Pickering, South Australia, the original name (1872–1940) of the town of Wool Bay
• Pickering Brook, Western Australia, Australia

Canada

• Pickering, Ontario
• Pickering Village, Ontario

England

• Pickering, North Yorkshire
• Pickering Beck, North Yorkshire
• Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire
  • Lake Pickering, a former lake

United States

• Pickering, Missouri
• Pickerington, Ohio
• Pickering, Pennsylvania
• Pickering Township, Bottineau County, North Dakota
• Mount Pickering, California
• Pickering Creek, Pennsylvania, a tributary of the Schuylkill River
• Pickering Passage, Washington, a strait
• Fort Pickering, Massachusetts, a 17th-century fort on the National Register of Historic Places
• Fort Pickering (Memphis, Tennessee), a Confederate fort in the American Civil War

Outer space

• Pickering (lunar crater)
• Pickering (Martian crater)

People and fictional characters

• Pickering (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
• Pickering Phipps, three related people in England in the 18th to 20th centuries

Schools

• Pickering College, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
• Pickering High School (disambiguation), several schools in various countries

Sports

• Pickering FC, a Canadian soccer team
• Pickering Panthers, a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Pickering, Ontario, Canada
• Pickering Town F.C., an English football team

Other uses

• Pickering's Defense, a chess opening
• USS Pickering (1798), an American schooner
• Pickering House (disambiguation), several houses
• Pickering Operations Complex, a skyscraper on Pickering Street in Singapore
• Pickering Interfaces, a British test and measurement company
• Pickering and Company, an American phonograph cartridge manufacturer, predecessor of Stanton Magnetics
• Pickering baronets, two extinct titles, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, the other in the Baronetage of England
• Pickering Medal, a New Zealand honour for promoting commercial success

See also

• Pickering emulsion, an emulsion stabilized by solid particles
• Pickering scale, a rating of astronomical seeing
• "Pickering test" in First Amendment law - see Pickering v. Board of Education