Aarthi Ventakesh

 is a contestant from Australian Survivor: Hauraki Gulf.

Profile
Name (Age): Aarthi Venkatesh (22)

Occupation: Medical Student

Current Residence: Perth, WA

Bio: An extremely intelligent woman with ambitious self-set goals of entering the healthcare profession, Perth native Aarthi is a third-generation Indian-Australian attending university to become a neurosurgeon. She is the only child of her father, Prakash, and her mother, Shanthi. Aarthi feels very connected to her family's culture, often spending time with them and traveling frequently between her hometown of Perth and Chennai, India, where much of her extended family resides. Aarthi's main interests include following AFL football, swimming, and constructing and solving 3-D puzzles of various kinds. Aarthi considers herself a cerebral individual, and the game of SURVIVOR very much captured her interest in this regard, really enjoying the strategy of the game. Aarthi has since become a dedicated SURVIVOR superfan, interacting with online SURVIVOR communities on a regular basis.

Aarthi's strategy is to stay under the radar initially, aligning herself with other superfans of the game to create a superfan alliance, seeing this as a way to keep herself aligned with smart and game-savvy players to go farther into the game with. However, she knows it is sometimes necessary to jump ship to another alliance if it is better for her game moving forward. She does not enjoy pessimistic and unmotivated people and would potentially avoid them, but cites this as a potential flaw within herself that she wishes to overcome in the game. However, after the merge, Aarthi maintains that she will do whatever is needed to win the title of Sole SURVIVOR.

Trivia

 * This castaway was created by UltraBubbles as part of a Castaway Competition. She would be the fourth castaway revealed to be taking part in the Hauraki Gulf.
 * Alongside Kokoro Futaba, Aarthi is the youngest castaway taking part in Hauraki Gulf. They are also the youngest females taking part.