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Auckland Islands
Auckland Islands (Maungahuka, Mōtū Maha): largest of New Zealand's five subantarctic island groups, 465 km south of Bluff, 57,000 ha, volcanic and glaciated. World Heritage 1998; Polynesian, sealing, Enderby colony, shipwreck, and coast-watcher history; pigs, cats, mice remain on main island.
Auckland Region
Auckland Region (Tāmaki Makaurau) is New Zealand's most populous regional council area, 1,816,000 people at June 2025, governed since 1 November 2010 by the unitary Auckland Council with 21 local boards.
Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company is a professional theater company founded in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1992 after the Mercury Theatre collapsed, opening its own ASB Waterfront Theatre in 2016.
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is the scholarly book publisher of the University of Auckland. Founded in 1966, it publishes about twenty books a year in history, poetry, and te reo Māori.
Auckland volcanic field
The Auckland volcanic field (Ngā Maunga a Mataaho) is a basaltic volcanic field of about 53 centers beneath Auckland, New Zealand, first erupting roughly 193,000 years ago.
Auckland Zoo
Auckland Zoo (Te Whare Kararehe o Tāmaki Makaurau), opened 16 December 1922 at Western Springs, is New Zealand's largest zoo, a not-for-profit conservation science organisation under Tātaki Auckland Unlimited with about 1,400 animals on 17 hectares.
Auction
An auction is a market mechanism that sells an item to the highest competitive bidder under explicit rules, with formats including English, Dutch, and sealed-bid.
Auction Hunters
Auction Hunters is an American reality TV series (Spike, 2010–2015, six seasons) starring Allen Haff and Clinton "Ton" Jones, who bid on defaulted storage units and resell finds; Spike's most-watched 2011 series at 1.6 million viewers.
Auction theory
Auction theory is the branch of economics that studies bidding strategies and auction formats, recognized by the 2020 Nobel prize awarded to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson.
Aucuba
Aucuba (Japanese laurel, spotted laurel, gold dust plant; アオキ) is a genus of ten evergreen Asian shrubs in Garryaceae, dioecious, shade- and drought-tolerant, with Aucuba japonica widely grown as a variegated ornamental with red berries.
Aucuba japonica (アオキ)
Aucuba japonica (アオキ), Japanese or spotted laurel, is a dioecious Garryaceae evergreen shrub from East Asia, grown since its 1783 British introduction for gold-spotted leaves, shade tolerance, and red winter berries on female plants.
Auda Abu Tayi
Auda Abu Tayi (عودة أبو تايه) was the paramount sheikh of the Abu Tayi section of the Howeitat Bedouin, who joined the Arab Revolt in 1917 and led the capture of Aqaba from the Ottomans.
Audacia (pipelaying vessel)
Audacia is a dynamically positioned pipelay vessel operated by Allseas, entering service in 2007 and distinguished by a stinger mounted at the bow rather than the stern.
Audacious Ventures
Audacious Ventures is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in April 2020 by former Lightspeed partner Nakul Mandan, investing at pre-seed and seed stage in B2B software companies.
Audacity (audio editor)
Audacity is a free, open-source audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, and Linux, started in 1999 by Dominic Mazzoni at Carnegie Mellon and acquired by Muse Group in 2021.
Audaristos
Audaristos (Αὐδάριστος, also Andaristos, Euristus/Euriston) was an ancient Paeonian town near modern Drenovo, North Macedonia, a Tabula Peutingeriana road station with a 10-ha Roman city, attested by Ptolemy and Pliny.
Audaryspak
Audaryspak (аударыспақ, also er enish, Oodarysh) is Kazakh horseback wrestling: two riders try to throw each other from the saddle. Weight classes, 5-minute bouts, World Horseback Wrestling Federation since 2023.
Audax Group
Audax Group is a Boston-based private equity firm focused on the US middle market, founded in 1999 by Bain Capital veterans Geoffrey Rehnert and Marc Wolpow.
Audax italiano
Audax Italiano (Audax Club Sportivo Italiano), Chilean football club founded 30 November 1910 as a cycling club by Santiago's Italian community; four Primera División titles (1936, 1946, 1948, 1957), plays at Estadio Bicentenario de La Florida, operates as a SADP under Law 20.019.
Audax Senior Loan Fund I, L.P.
Audax Senior Loan Fund I, L.P. is a senior loan fund within Audax Private Debt, the private credit platform of Audax Group, lending to U.S. middle market companies.
Audemars Piguet
Audemars Piguet is a Swiss manufacturer of high-precision mechanical watches, founded in 1875 in Le Brassus in the Vallée de Joux and still owned by its founding families.
Audentes Therapeutics
Audentes Therapeutics was a clinical-stage San Francisco biotechnology company developing AAV gene therapies for rare single-gene diseases, acquired by Astellas Pharma for about $3 billion in 2020.
Audhumla Corona
Audhumla Corona is a 225-km-wide corona (quasi-circular volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 45.5N, 12.0E, in quadrangle V-08, named in 1994 after the Norse primordial nourisher.
Audi
Audi is a German premium automobile maker headquartered in Ingolstadt, Bavaria; founded by August Horch in 1909, it has been a wholly owned Volkswagen subsidiary since 1966.
Audi 100
The Audi 100 is a mid-size executive car produced by Audi in four generations, C1 to C4, from 1968 to 1994, selling 3.2 million and preceding the Audi A6.
Audi 50
The Audi 50, internally the Typ 86, was a small two-door hatchback Audi built from 1974 to 1978 and the direct blueprint for the Volkswagen Polo.
Audi 80
The Audi 80, sold in the USA as the Audi Fox, is a compact sedan produced by Audi from 1972 until the mid-1990s, when the Audi A4 succeeded it.
Audi A1
The Audi A1, known early on as the Audi Metroproject, is a premium supermini produced by Audi from 2010 to 2026 across two generations, with 1,389,658 units delivered.
Audi A2
The Audi A2 is a five-door compact hatchback Audi built from 1999 to 2005 with an all-aluminum body; its 1.2 TDI was the first four-door 'three-litre car'.
Audi A2 e-tron
The Audi A2 e-tron is a compact all-electric hatchback from German automaker Audi, announced in 2026 and built in Ingolstadt as the brand's entry-level electric model.