Wellington (disambiguation)
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Wellington can refer to various things.
Places
- About the capital of New Zealand:
- Wellington is the name of other places in the world including:
- In Australia
- In Canada
- Wellington, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Wellington, Prince Edward Island
- Wellington Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
- Wellington, Queens County, Nova Scotia
- Wellington, Halifax County, Canada
- Wellington, New Brunswick
- Wellington, New Brunswick (community)
- Wellington, Ontario
- Wellington North Township, Ontario
- Wellington, electoral district, Manitoba
- Wellington, Nanaimo Regional District, British Columbia
- In Chile
- In India
- In New Zealand
- In South Africa
- In the United Kingdom
- In the United States of America
People and creatures
- Duke of Wellington is the title of several present and past British noblemen. The most famous is Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
- Wellington is the name of a fictional orphan boy (with a dog appropriately named Boot) in the British comic strip The Perishers; see List of comic strips.
- Wellington is one of the characters in The Wombles, a British children's series.
- Wellington is the name of the dead dog in the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Things
- Beef Wellington is a fillet of beef tenderloin coated with pâté de foie gras and a duxelles of mushrooms that are then all wrapped in puff pastry.
- The Wellington boot is a type of protective boot, popularized by the first Duke of Wellington.
- There are schools named Wellington College, Wellington School, Somerset, Wellington School, Shropshire.
- The Vickers Wellington was a British heavy bomber used extensively in World War II
- A Wellington is a type of beer-glass