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unusual facts about Aua, Reef Islands



American University of Antigua

AUA was founded by Neal S. Simon, a lawyer and former president of Ross University.

Bismarck Sea

By the Northern and Northeastern coasts of the islands of New Ireland, New Hanover, the Admiralty Islands, Hermit Island, and the Ninigo Group, through Manu and Aua Islands to Wuvulu Island and thence a line to Baudissin Point in New Guinea (142°02'E).

Earl Morse Wilbur

Wilbur was the first dean 1904-1910; then president 1911-1931; and until 1934, professor of homiletics and practical theology at the Pacific Unitarian School for Ministry, Berkeley, California of the American Unitarian Association (AUA).

Makalom

Makalom is a small uninhabited island in the Reef Islands, in the Solomon Islands province of Temotu.

Martha Sharp

Dr. Robert Dexter, head of the Department of Social Relations for the Executive Committee of the AUA, along with Quaker representative Richard Wood traveled to Europe to start contacts in Geneva, London and Paris, to create a network of relief workers and sympathetic politicians.

Pileni

Pileni is a culturally important island in the Reef Islands, in the northern part of the Solomon Islands province of Temotu.

Reef Islands

Makalom about 17 km (10 mi.) to the northwest of the main group

Sargon Dadesho

His pursuit of a more militant approach to finding solutions to Assyrian struggle in Iraq led him to leave AUA and with the help of a few former AUA members form the Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party in California.

Unanue family

Andy Unanue, current Managing Partner of AUA Private Equity Partners and former Chief Operating Officer of Goya Foods since 1999 after his brother Joseph died.

Vaeakau-Taumako language

The language is spoken throughout the Taumako Islands, while in the Reef Islands, it is spoken on Aua, Matema, Nifiloli, Nupani, Nukapu, and Pileni.


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