Place:Haast, West Coast, New Zealand

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Haast is a German family name. It may refer to:

• High Availability for Asterisk, a software package which turns any two Asterisk 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 and explorer of New Zealand; several things in New Zealand are named for him:
  • Haast's eagle, extinct species of giant eagle identified by Haast and eventually named for him
  • Haast, New Zealand, township on the Tasman Sea
    • Haast Aerodrome, aerodrome adjacent Haast in New Zealand
  • Haast Pass, a mountain pass in the Southern Alps
  • Haast River, a river on the West Coast of the South Island
  • Haast Schist, kind of rock found in New Zealand
• Anne Haast (born 1993), Dutch chess player
• Cees Haast (1938–2019), Dutch cyclist

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