In dictionaries:
Coniston Water
Lake in England's Lake District.
Old Man of Coniston
A mountain, 803 metres high, in Coniston parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD2797).
Coniston massacre
The Coniston massacre, which took place in the region around the Coniston cattle station in the territory of Central Australia (now the Northern Territory) from 14 August to 18 October 1928, was the last known officially sanctioned massacre of Indigenous Australians and one of the last events of the Australian frontier wars.
Coniston copper mines
a copper mining operation in Lancashire, England.
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