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unusual facts about Buller's Albatross


Rosemary Rock

It is a breeding site for a small colony, only discovered in 1983, of about 20 pairs of Northern Buller's Albatrosses (Thalassarche bulleri platei), the only known breeding site for the subspecies away from the Chatham Islands.


253 Provost Company

The regimental headquarters is located at Pritchard House, Buller Barracks, Aldershot Garrison.

Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross

Salvin's Albatross also has a grey head but has much broader wings, a pale bill and even narrower black borders to the underwing.

Baron Churston

Joan Yarde-Buller, daughter of the third Baron Churston, married Prince Aly Khan.

Battle of Hlobane

Colonel Buller received the Victoria Cross for his conspicuous gallantry and leadership, as did Lieutenant Henry Lysons and Private Edmund Fowler for charging the caves that morning.

Bounty Islands

The Bounty group has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because of its significance as a breeding site for Erect-crested Penguins, Salvin's Albatrosses and Bounty Shags.

Chatham Albatross

The Chatham Albatross, with the White-capped, Shy and Salvin's Albatrosses, were all considered the same species until a 1998 book by Robertson and Nunn.

Cumberland Lodge

In 1943 Amy Buller’s book Darkness Over Germany was published.Drawing on her experiences in Germany between the two world wars, she believed that the rise of Nazism had been significantly aided by the great German universities not teaching students to use their critical judgment on the world around them and not providing an environment where the great issues of the day could be openly discussed.

Daventry by-election, 1943

The local Conservatives selected 38 year-old Reginald Manningham-Buller.

Death of Gertrude Hullett

Controversially, the Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller entered a plea of nolle prosequi regarding the Hullett case, an act later described by the presiding judge Patrick Devlin as "an abuse of process".

Dilhorne Hall

The Baronetcy of Dilhorne in the County of Stafford was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 20 January 1866 for Edward Manningham-Buller.

Francesca Buller

Buller is married to fellow actor Ben Browder, who played John Crichton in Farscape and Cameron Mitchell in Stargate SG-1.

Geoffrey Barton

Buller's first objective was the Relief of Ladysmith, to which end he moved his army up from Cape Town via Pietermaritzburg to Frere, just south of the Tugela River, the north of which the Boers had placed their defensive line.

Georgiana Buller

Buller was born in Crediton, Devon, the only daughter of General Sir Redvers Buller and his wife, Lady Audrey, youngest daughter of the 4th Marquess Townshend.

Giulio Camillo

This tradition has inspired artists from many disparate disciplines, amongst them, the writers, Ted Hughes (1992), Carlota Caulfield (2003), and Hilary Mantel in Wolf Hall (2009); visual artists, Jean Dubuffet (1977) and Bill Viola (1985); and composer John Buller (2003).

Henry Beasley

The first match, Crockford's v. Culbertson, took place in 1930, after the BullerCulbertson match.

Insurance law

In the insurance law context, this meant that the decisions of early commercial judges such as Mansfield, Lord Eldon and Buller bound, or, outside England and Wales, were at the least highly persuasive to, their successors considering similar questions of law.

Murchison, New Zealand

Recognised as the "Whitewater Capital" of New Zealand, nearby rivers include the Gowan River, Mangles River, Matiri River, Glenroy River, Matakitaki River, Maruia River, and the Buller, with many excellent whitewater runs along its length.

Nelson Province

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New South Wales Albatross Study Group

The “Wanderer” group of albatrosses has been split into several taxa including, as well as the Wandering Albatross, the Antipodean, Gibson's, Tristan and Amsterdam Albatrosses, not all all of which are recognised by all authorities.

New Zealand State Highway 65

It is 71 km long and runs south to north down the Maruia river valley from SH 7 at Springs Junction, 15 km west of the main divide at the Lewis Pass, to SH 6 in the Buller Gorge, 11 km west of Murchison.

Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

Bodkin-Adams was tried and controversially found not guilty on the Morrell charge and even more controversially, the prosecutor – Attorney-General, Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller – entered a nolle prosequi regarding the Hullett charge.

Redvers Buller

There is a memorial to Buller, in the form of his recumbent effigy, in the north transept of Winchester Cathedral, England.

Siege of Ladysmith

While Buller made repeated attempts to fight his way across the Tugela, the defenders of Ladysmith suffered increasingly from shortage of food and other supplies, and from disease, mainly enteric fever or typhoid, which claimed among many others, the life of noted war correspondent G.W. Steevens.

Snares Penguin

A description written by Hutton and an illustration done by Keulemans in Buller’s “A History of the Birds of New Zealand” are evidence that this is the same penguin previously identified by Hutton.

Solander Islands

The southern, and nominate, subspecies of Buller's Albatross (Thalassarche b. bulleri) breeds only on the Solanders and the Snares.

Victor Buller Turner

Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Buller Turner VC CVO (17 January 1900 – 7 August 1972) was an English recipient during the Second World War of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Viscount Dilhorne

It was created in 1964 for the lawyer, Conservative politician and former Lord Chancellor, Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Baron Dilhorne.

Walter Buller

Buller was the author of A History of the Birds of New Zealand (1872–1873, 2nd ed. 1887–1888), with illustrations by John Gerrard Keulemans and Henrik Grönvold.

White-capped Albatross

The White-capped Albatross is part of a greater complex of Albatrosses consisting of the Shy Albatross, Thasassarche cauta, Salvin's Albatross, Thalassarche salvini, Chatham Albatross, Thalassarche eremita.


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