Auster (disambiguation)
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Auster was, in Roman mythology, the embodiment of the sirocco wind who brought heavy cloud cover and fog or humidity. (See Anemoi). It can be used to refer to any wind from the south.
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was also a British aircraft manufacturer named after the Roman god.
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Auster Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1938 to 1961.-History:The company began in 1938 at the Britannia Works, Thurmaston near Leicester, England, as Taylorcraft Aeroplanes Limited, making light observation aircraft designed by the Taylorcraft Aircraft Corporation of...
was also a British aircraft manufacturer named after the Roman god.
Auster may also refer to:
In people:
- Daniel AusterDaniel Austerright|thumb|Daniel AusterDaniel Auster was Mayor of Jerusalem in the final years of the British Mandate of Palestine, the first Jewish mayor of the city, and the first mayor of Jerusalem after Israeli independence.-Biography:...
, Mayor of Jerusalem in the final years of the British Mandate of Palestine - Lawrence AusterLawrence AusterLawrence Auster is an American traditionalist conservative blogger and essayist.-Personal life:Auster grew up in New Jersey. He attended Columbia University for two years, later finishing a B.A. in English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He moved to Manhattan in 1978, and still resides...
, an American traditionalist conservative blogger and essayist - Paul AusterPaul AusterPaul Benjamin Auster is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy , Moon Palace , The Music of Chance , The Book of Illusions and The Brooklyn Follies...
, a Brooklyn-based author - Sophie AusterSophie AusterSophie Auster is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of author and film director Paul Auster and writer Siri Hustvedt....
, an American actress and singer
In places:
- Auster GlacierAuster GlacierAuster Glacier is a glacier about wide, flowing northwest into the southeast extremity of Amundsen Bay. It was sighted in October 1956 by an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions party led by P.W. Crohn, and named after the Auster aircraft used by ANARE in coastal exploration....
, located in East Antarctica - Auster IslandsAuster IslandsThe Auster Islands are a group of small islands at the northeast end of the Robinson Group, located north of Cape Daly, Mac. Robertson Land. They were mapped from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions surveys and from air photos 1959–66, and so named by the Antarctic Names...
, East Antarctica - Auster PassAuster PassAuster Pass is a high pass in the Royal Society Range, between Mount Huggins and Mount Kempe, leading into the Skelton Glacier area from McMurdo Sound. It was named by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition for the RNZAF Antarctic Flight's Auster...
, located in East Antarctica - Auster PointAuster PointAuster Point is a headland midway along the east shore of Charcot Bay, Trinity Peninsula. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the Auster aircraft used by British expeditions in this area....
, located in West Antactica
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- 19861 Auster19861 Auster19861 Auster is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 24, 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
, an asteroid - Auster rookeryAuster rookery67° 23' 46.0" S, 63° 57' 02.5" EAuster Rookery is an Emperor penguin rookery on sea-ice, sheltered by grounded icebergs about 51 km ENE of Mawson Station in Antarctica....
, an Emperor penguin rookery in Antarctica - Taylorcraft AusterTaylorcraft AusterThe Taylorcraft Auster was a British military liaison and observation aircraft produced by the Taylorcraft Aeroplanes Limited company during the Second World War.-Design and development:...
, a British WW2 military liaison and observation aircraft