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3 unusual facts about Moa


Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds

Nobita and his friends are further supported by many of their friends who had been helped by them in the past, including Hoi and his family, Moa and Dodo, and the now-adult humanoid plant Kibo, who revives Doraemon with his green laser.

Moa, Cuba

Large nickel and cobalt deposits located in the Moa area are exploited in part by joint ventures with the Canadian company Sherritt International.

The Romance of Hine-moa

The Romance of Hine-Moa is a 1927 British film set in New Zealand, directed and produced for Gaumont British by Gustav Pauli.


Abdurahim Laajab

Ahead of the 2005-season, Ibba and his teammate Moa joined Rosenborg BK on their pre-season tour to La Manga.

Anika Moa

Moa has been the subject of two documentaries by filmmaker Justin Pemberton: 3 Chords and the Truth: the Anika Moa Story (2003), based around her signing to Atlantic and the release of her first album, and In Bed With Anika Moa (2010).

In 2009 The New Zealand Herald named Moa as one of the "Top 10 Kiwi music successes of the past 10 years".

In December 2012, Moa starred in an online video campaign supporting gay marriage, alongside New Zealand singers Hollie Smith and Boh Runga, as well as Olympian Danyon Loader and former Governor-General Dame Catherine Tizard.

Clutha River

The upper reaches of the river once abounded in flightless Moa, predated upon by the Haast's Eagle.

Hornby, New Zealand

Singers Bic Runga and Anika Moa were both raised in Hornby, and Moa attended South Hornby Primary school and Hornby High School.

Juliette and the Licks

At the same event, Lewis and Moa Holmsten from Meldrum came on stage for one of Motörhead's songs to do backing vocals.

Minute of arc

It is especially popular with shooters familiar with the Imperial measurement system because 1 MOA subtends approximately one inch at 100 yards, a traditional distance on target ranges.

Moa Madicken Öberg

Moa Madicken Öberg got her middle name "Madicken" from a popular character in the Astrid Lindgren book by the same name.

Museum of Anthropology at UBC

Arthur Erickson and landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander originally intended the pool to be opened as part of the new Museum of Anthropology in 1976; now, nearly thirty-five years later, their original vision for MOA has been fulfilled.

Peace process with the Bangsamoro in the Philippines

Three days before the scheduled signing of the MOA-AD, local officials of North Cotabato filed a case asking the Supreme Court to block the signing of this agreement.

Pietra Brettkelly

The film won a Moa award in 2012 for Best Documentary, and is poised for public debut in cinemas throughout New Zealand in May 2013.

Rogue planet

They observed 50 million stars in our galaxy using the 1.8 meter MOA-II telescope at New Zealand's Mount John Observatory and the 1.3 meter University of Warsaw telescope at Chile's Las Campanas Observatory.

Sherritt International

The company has coal mines in Alberta and Saskatchewan and nickel laterite mines in Moa, Cuba and near Moramanga, Madagascar.

Trevor H. Worthy

For the book The Lost World of the Moa (2002) he and Richard Holdaway received the D. L. Serventy Medal from the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union in 2003 for an outstanding published work about Australasian avifauna.

Utetheisa pectinata

It is found on the islands of Arafura Sea (Moa, Dammer, Tiandoe and Tam, Tenimber, Little Key) and in Australia (where it is only known from the coastal strip of the Northern Territory).


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