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Malden Island, sometimes called Independence Island in the nineteenth century, is a low, arid, uninhabited island in the central Pacific Ocean, about in area.
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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 is located south of the equator, south of Honolulu, Hawaii, and more than west of the coast of South America.
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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Black Hawk and his followers became known as the " British Band " because they sometimes flew a British flag to defy claims of U. S. sovereignty, and because they hoped to gain the support of the British at Fort Malden in Canada.
He graduated from Harvard in 1651 and taught there as a tutor until 1654, sometimes preaching in Charlestown and Malden, Massachusetts.
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British officials insisted that Malden should not be called a " target island ".
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.
") In On the Waterfront, in which Malden plays the priest, among the names of the officers of Local 374 called out in the courtroom scene is Mladen Sekulovich, Delegate.
The Americans built a new, smaller fort on the same site and called it Fort Malden.
It called at Surbiton at 8: 04 then New Malden at 8: 10.
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Charles Robert Malden ( 9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855 ), was a nineteenth century British naval officer, surveyor and educator.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, during the heyday of American whaling in the central Pacific, Malden was visited on a number of occasions by American whalers.
As of 2000, Sea Ranch Lakes had the nineteenth highest percentage of Brazilians in the US ( tied with Revere, Massachusetts and Malden, Massachusetts ) at 1. 7 % of the population, while it was the sixtieth most Peruvian-populated area at 1. 01 % of all residents ( tied with Brentwood, New York ).
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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.
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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