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    The Sir Edmund Hillary Library (also known as Papakura Library) is a library in Auckland, New Zealand. Papakura’s first municipal library was established...
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    Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and...
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    Services – The Sir Edmund Hillary Library Rodney Libraries Waitakere City Libraries In the years leading up to the merger of the library systems within...
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    Tenzing Norgay (category Edmund Hillary)
    Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest...
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    1972. Accent Point Building, which houses the Papakura Museum, Sir Edmund Hillary Library and Elim Christian Centre. Christ Church (Anglican) established...
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    1953 British Mount Everest expedition (category Edmund Hillary)
    and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29 May 1953. Led by Colonel John Hunt, it was...
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  • January 1952. p. 503. Perrin, Jim (11 January 2008). "Obituary – Sir Edmund Hillary". The Guardian. Hunt 1953, pp. 33, 135. Conefrey, Mick (2012). Everest...
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    Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (category Edmund Hillary)
    It was headed by British explorer Vivian Fuchs, with New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary leading the New Zealand Ross Sea Support team. The New Zealand party...
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    Glenn, Jim Fowler, Walter Cronkite, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Sir Edmund Hillary, Buzz Aldrin and Albert I, Prince of Monaco. The Explorers Club has...
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  • — The Treaty of Waitangi, the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition, the Sir Edmund Hillary archive, and the Katherine Mansfield literary and personal papers...
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    209 Great South Road. This building was created to house the Sir Edmund Hillary Library, a schools resource centre, and the Papakura Museum. Originally...
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    ISBN 9781403497550. Gill, Michael (2017). Edmund Hillary: A Biography. Nelson, NZ: Potton & Burton. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-947503-38-3. Sir John Hunt, The Ascent of Everest...
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    In 1958, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He co-wrote, with Sir Edmund Hillary, The Crossing of Antarctica. In 1959 he was awarded the Hans Egede...
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    and being the seat of the Hillary family, with one strand of the family emigrating to New Zealand and raising Sir Edmund Hillary, the famous mountaineer...
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    and academic Hugh Kāwharu. The papers and memorabilia of the late Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, are held in the...
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  • exhibition, 'Sir Edmund Hillary: Everest and Beyond', which she curated for Auckland Museum, Johnston published her first book, Sir Edmund Hillary: An Extraordinary...
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    kilometres (0.50 miles) west of the Lami Bay Hotel outside Lami. Sir Edmund Hillary, the mountaineer made famous for being the first climber (with his...
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    Tenzing Norgay, the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary, was born in the area in the village of Thani and was once sent to...
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  • student can represent their house. Blake (Sir Peter Blake, red) Hillary (Sir Edmund Hillary, yellow/gold) Jackson (Sir Peter Jackson, green) Te Kanawa (Dame...
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  • and 1905, Sir Ernest Shackleton worked as the secretary of the society before resuming his career as an Antarctic explorer. Sir Edmund Hillary, Neil Armstrong...
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    Redford, Cary Grant, Sean Connery, Marlon Brando, Ginger Rogers, Sir Edmund Hillary, and the entire cast of the film The Empire Strikes Back. Julius'...
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  • has been home to many well-known New Zealanders, including the late Sir Edmund Hillary and the race car driver Bruce McLaren. The area was attractive to...
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    technology, and later languages, at Kōwhai Intermediate School and Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate in Ōtara. Manapori advocated the Cook Islands Māori language...
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    Counts: Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate Junior School Education Counts: Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate Middle School Education Counts: Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate...
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    Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton Many influential politicians are associated with the college, including...
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    "Grant Fox #857". Stats. All Blacks. Retrieved 1 October 2019. "Sir Edmund Hillary". Auckland Grammar School. Archived from the original on 16 June 2009...
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    London University in the same year. As a physiologist, he joined Sir Edmund Hillary's 1960–61 Silver Hut expedition, a scientific and mountaineering expedition...
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    Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's...
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    higher parts of Everest from Khumbu - the route subsequently taken by Sir Edmund Hillary in Everest's first successful ascent. He attempted K2 again in 1953...
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    Halberg (black), named after athlete Murray Halberg Hillary (yellow), named after mountaineer Edmund Hillary Ngarimu (green), named after soldier Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa...
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