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    Sir Johann Franz Julius von Haast KCMG FRS (1 May 1822 – 16 August 1887) was a German-born New Zealand explorer, geologist, and founder of the Canterbury...
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    destroyed large tracts of forest by fire. Haast's eagle was first scientifically described by Julius von Haast in 1871 from remains discovered by the Canterbury...
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    used the pass in pre-European times. The pass takes its name from Julius von Haast, a 19th-century explorer who also served as provincial geologist for...
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    Landsborough River. Julius von Haast named the river after himself, "directed, so he said, by his Provincial Superintendent". Von Haast explored a route...
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    across to the eastern side of the Southern Alps are all named after Julius von Haast, a Prussian-born geologist who travelled through the area in 1863....
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    Christopher Maling. Later in 1860, the river was named by Julius von Haast during his own expedition; von Haast became the brother-in-law of Lewis' daughter in...
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    river was named after the French navigator Jules Dumont d'Urville by Julius von Haast. Brown and rainbow trout can be fished in the D'Urville River. A tramping...
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    scientist Julius von Haast who had also recently arrived in New Zealand, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. Polymath Arthur Purchas convinced von Hochstetter...
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  • servers into a cluster Bill Haast (1910–2011), founder of the Miami Serpentarium and pioneering snake venom collector Julius von Haast (1822–1887), German geologist...
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    hill was named after the German-born geologist Julius von Haast by James Mackay (1831–1912). Mount Haast is located near Rahu Saddle on State Highway 7...
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    to "Australasia", another German-speaking explorer and geologist, Julius von Haast (1822-1887), was appointed as the inaugural Curator/Director of the...
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    city's Cultural Precinct. The museum was established in 1867 with Julius von Haast – whose collection formed its core – as its first director. The building...
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    to "Australasia", another German-speaking explorer and geologist, Julius von Haast (1822–1887), was appointed as the inaugural Curator/Director of the...
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    has no rapids of interest to whitewater enthusiasts. It was named by Julius von Haast in the 1860s for his father-in-law, Edward Dobson, who was the Canterbury...
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    geographic Hooker items were named by the Canterbury provincial geologist, Julius von Haast, after the English botanist William Jackson Hooker. The glacier starts...
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    Brun as the third highest mountain in New Zealand. It was named by Julius von Haast after the French geographer Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun. Malte Brun was...
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    returned to Hawaiki. He sent kūmara back to the new lands with the canoe. Julius von Haast suggested in 1871 that an early Polynesian people who hunted the moa...
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    a tributary to the Tasman Glacier, in the south. It was named by Julius von Haast after the french geologist Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont. Wikimedia...
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    Gray's beaked whale (category Taxa named by Julius von Haast)
    called hakurā or iheihe. The species was first described in 1876 by Julius von Haast, director of the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand. He named...
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    Torrentfish (category Taxa named by Julius von Haast)
    Labriformes Family: Cheimarrichthyidae Regan, 1913 Genus: Cheimarrichthys Haast, 1874 Species: C. fosteri Binomial name Cheimarrichthys fosteri Haast, 1874...
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    Joseph Henry Gilbert Philip Henry Gosse Asa Gray* William Robert Grove Julius von Haast Ernst Haeckel John Stevens Henslow* Joseph Dalton Hooker* Thomas Henry...
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    Germany 2016: Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2017: Julius von Haast Fellowship Award from the Royal Society of New Zealand 2018: Herbert...
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    They were common when Charles Heaphy visited Lake Rotoroa in 1846. Julius von Haast wrote in 1861 that "no other bird being as numerous as the weka which...
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  • Zealand. p. 125. Heinrich Ferdinand Von Haast, Julius von Haast (1948). The life and times of Sir Julius von Haast, explorer, geologist, museum builder...
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    Mount Davy in New Zealand's Paparoa Range was named after him by Julius von Haast. in 1827, the mineral davyne was named in his honour by W. Haidinger...
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    resident, Charles French Pemberton, named the area, whilst the geologist Julius von Haast named the mountain after William Sefton Moorhouse, the second Superintendent...
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    mountain was named after the German-born geologist Julius von Haast by James Mackay (1831–1912). Mount Haast is located just north off the Main Divide and...
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    (1817–1893), author and archivist Leopold Kaufmann (1821–1898), mayor Julius von Haast (1822–1887), New Zealand, professor of geology Dietrich Brandis (1824–1907)...
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    Mount Malte-Brun in New Zealand's Southern Alps was named, by Sir Julius von Haast, after him. Jeunes voyageurs en France (1840) Destinée de Sir John...
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    geographic Hooker items were named by the Canterbury provincial geologist, Julius von Haast, after the English botanist William Jackson Hooker. The Hooker Valley...
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