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Malden Island is located south of the equator, south of Honolulu, Hawaii, and more than west of the coast of South America.
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He is the discoverer of Malden Island in the central Pacific, which is named in his honour.
" On the return voyage he discovered and explored uninhabited Malden Island in the central Pacific on 30 July 1825.
* 1825 – Malden Island is discovered by captain George Byron, 7th Baron Byron.
The United Kingdom supposedly conducted its first successful hydrogen bomb test at Malden Island on 15 May 1957 ; Christmas Island was the operation's main base.
Malden Island, in the central Pacific, was deserted when first visited by Europeans in 1825, but the unsuspected presence of ruined temples and the remains of other structures found on the island indicate that a population of Polynesians had lived there for perhaps several generations some centuries earlier.
NASA orbital photo of Malden Island ( north at top )
Malden Island, sometimes called Independence Island in the nineteenth century, is a low, arid, uninhabited island in the central Pacific Ocean, about in area.
There is no standing fresh water on Malden Island, though a fresh water lens may exist.
In 1915, schooner Annie Larsen, infamous for her role in the Hindu-German Conspiracy, was stranded at Malden Island.
The guano diggers constructed a unique railroad on Malden Island, with cars powered by large sails.
In 1956 the United Kingdom selected Malden as the " instrumentation site " for its first series of thermonuclear ( H-bomb ) weapons tests, based at Kiritimati ( Christmas Island ).
A pair of Masked Boobies ( Sula dactylatra ) calling on Malden Island
Malden was reserved as a wildlife sanctuary and closed area, and was officially designated as the " Malden Island Wildlife Sanctuary ", on 29 May 1975, under the 1975 Wildlife Conservation Ordinance.
File: Malden Island AKK ruins. jpg | Early Polynesian ruins on Malden Island
File: Malden AKK LandingPoint. jpg | Boat Landing on Malden Island with ruins of old settlement
File: Malden AKK Terns. jpg | Gray-backed Terns flying over Malden Island with lagoon in background
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There is no resident staff at Malden, however, and occasional visits by foreign yachtsmen and fishermen cannot be monitored from Kiritimati.
New Malden is a small town and shopping centre in the south-western London suburbs, mostly within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and partly in the London Borough of Merton, and is situated from Charing Cross.
New Malden was established entirely as a result of the arrival of the railway when what is now called New Malden railway station was opened on 1 December 1846 on the main line from Waterloo.
Two miles ( 3 km ) to the south is the former village of Old Malden from which it gets its name, whose origins go back to Anglo-Saxon times, the name being Old English for Mæl + duna = the cross on the hill.
New Malden is bounded to the north by the affluent Coombe Hill and to the south and east by Raynes Park, Worcester Park and Tolworth.
New Malden is often affectionately referred to as ' New Mouldy ' by local residents in reference to the town.
According to different sources, the Korean population in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is around 20, 000, of whom around 8000 reside in the Kingston Borough portion of New Malden.
* February – General Harrison sends out an expedition to burn the British vessels at Fort Malden by going across Lake Erie via the Bass Islands in sleighs, but the ice is not hard enough and the expedition returns.
* July 30 – Malden Island ( an uninhabited island in the central Pacific Ocean ) is discovered.
Terry meets and is smitten by the murdered Joey Doyle's sister, Edie ( Eva Marie Saint ), who has shamed " waterfront priest " Father Barry ( Karl Malden ) into fomenting action against the mob-controlled union.
The main town is Kingston upon Thames and it includes Surbiton, Chessington, New Malden and Tolworth.
The borough is home to the highest number of South Koreans in Europe, in the town of New Malden.
Malden is a village in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.
Malden is located at ( 41. 424834 ,-89. 368444 ).
It is bordered by Malden on the north, Revere on the east, Chelsea on the southeast, Boston and the Mystic River on the south, and Somerville and Medford on the west.
Malden is a city in the Northwest Corner of Dunklin County, Missouri, United States, located near the intersection of Missouri Route 25 and U. S. Route 62.
The population was 4, 277 at the 2010 census, Malden is within Missouri's 8th congressional district.
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Malden is located at ( 36. 572045 ,-89. 971133 ), in the Missouri Bootheel and the New Madrid Seismic Zone, about west of New Madrid and the Mississippi River meander around the Kentucky Bend.
Malden is located along the Crowley's Ridge Parkway.
Malden is located at ( 42. 093279 ,-73. 934804 ).
Malden is located at ( 47. 227390 ,-117. 475470 ).
The area around Malden Island, located about 330 kilometers south of Christmas Island, was to be the site for the bomber-dropped tests, and Penrhyn Island, 320 kilometers farther south was used as a technical monitoring site and as a weather station.
A second campus is located in nearby Chelsea, Massachusetts ; five satellites are located in the local communities of Cambridge, East Boston, Malden, Revere, Somerville and Boston ’ s South End.
Bradley and Harry Sherwood ( Karl Malden ) from NASA have already arrived at the control center for Hercules, which is located beneath the AT & T Building ( now known as 195 Broadway ) in Lower Manhattan.
Oak Grove is an MBTA station on the Orange Line, located in the northern part of Malden, Massachusetts near the intersection of Winter Street and Main Street, and adjacent to the city of Melrose.
Barbara Webb, a resident of nearby Old Malden, devoted much time to finding the exact placement of the picture, and according to her research, the scene is located at Six Acre Meadow, alongside Church Road, Old Malden.
Malden Center Station is an MBTA station on the Orange Line and Haverhill Line, located on Pleasant Street in downtown Malden, Massachusetts.
Historic Fort Wayne, built 1843 to guard Detroit from British attack from Windsor's Fort Malden, is located at the northeastern end of the neighborhood.
However, at the same time, the United States government realized there were a lack of fortifications along the northern border to repel a potential British attack, and in particular, no counterpart to the British Fort Malden located in Amherstburg.
Middlesex Fells Reservation, often referred to simply as the Fells, is a Massachusetts state park located in Malden, Medford, Melrose, Stoneham, and Winchester.
The nearest indoor swimming pools are located in Epsom, North Cheam, New Malden and Sutton.
By 1647 Peter had located to Malden, Massachusetts where he was one of the earliest and largest land owners ; he also owned land on Mystic Side.
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