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unusual facts about Auckland University



Gary Daverne

Daverne was born in 1939 in Auckland, New Zealand and was educated at Auckland University and Auckland Teachers Training College.

Leigh Robert Davis

Davis was born in Raetihi, completed an M.A. Honours degree in English at Auckland University (including a thesis on the poetry of Allen Curnow), then studied Commerce subjects towards an M.B.A. at Victoria University.

Michael Parekowhai

After leaving high-school, Parekowhai worked as a florist's assistant before commencing his BFA at Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts (1987–1990).

Pachyplichas jagmi

The holotype is a right tarsometatarsus (AU 7102.20 in the collections of the Auckland University Geology Department) collected on 25 August 1978 from the Ruakuri Cave in the Waitomo District of the North Island of New Zealand.

Peter Bellwood

A fieldwork project in the northern Moluccas islands of eastern Indonesia, involving joint research with Indonesian scholars and Geoffrey Irwin of Auckland University yielded cave sequences covering the past 35,000 years, with very clear signals of an Austronesian presence commencing after 4000 BP.

Pira Sudham

He won a New Zealand government scholarship to read English Literature at Auckland University and then Victoria University of Wellington, where his first story was published by New Zealand's leading literary quarterly Landfall.

Susan Frykberg

She has also served as a guest lecturer at The Ontario College of Art, Toronto, and Emily Carr College, Vancouver, Auckland University, RMIT University, Melbourne and Box Hill Institute of TAFE.


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Bernard Martin

From Auckland, he was on the Auckland City Council and the Auckland University Council.

Philip Clairmont

A biography of Clairmont by Martin Edmond, The resurrection of Philip Clairmont (Auckland University Press, 1999), was a finalist in the 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

Polynesian Panthers

On 12 September, 2009 the Polynesian Panthers held a special evening in Auckland to honour American Black Panther revolutionary artist Emory Douglas during his International Artist in Residency at Auckland University's Elam Art School.

Savenaca Siwatibau

While at Auckland University, he had met his future wife, Suliana Kaloumaira, a native of Moturiki Island.