Malden Island, sometimes called Independence Island in the 19th century, is a low, arid, uninhabited atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, about 39 km2...

Malden may refer to: Old Malden, historically known as Malden, Kingston upon Thames, England Malden Rushett, Kingston upon Thames, England New Malden...

The Line Islands Howland Island, Baker Island, Jarvis Island, Malden Island and Starbuck Island Tuvalu, Tokelau and the Northern Cook Islands (Pukapuka...

Robert Malden (9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855), was a nineteenth-century British naval officer, surveyor and educator. He is the discoverer of Malden Island in...

bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the Pacific Ocean (modern Kiribati)...

on several of the islands, including the Kiritimati and Tabuaeran atolls, Teraina Island, Malden, Millennium Atoll and Flint Island. These remains are...

list of all of the islands of Kiribati. The Republic of Kiribati consists of 32 atolls and one raised coral island. These islands are dispersed throughout...

Mauke and Malden Island, which he named after his surveying officer. Starbuck Island was claimed by the United States under the 1856 Guano Islands Act, but...

money, the target was off the southern tip of Christmas Island rather than off Malden Island, just 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) from the airfield...

Kingdom conducted its first hydrogen bomb test series, Grapple 1–3, at Malden Island from 15 May to 19 June 1957 and used Kiritimati as the operation's main...

Tabuaeran, Kiritimati, Malden Island, Starbuck Island, Caroline Islands, Vostok Islands and Flint Island from the Line Islands. Maude, H. E. (1952). "The...

discovered and charted Malden Island, which he named after his surveying officer; also the island of Mauke which he named "Parry Island" in honour of Sir William...

settlements are lost with few or no clues to their abandonment. For example, Malden Island, in the central Pacific, was deserted when first visited by Europeans...

United Kingdom claimed Kiritimati and Malden Island for the British Empire. Others nations that claimed guano islands included Australia, France, Germany...

Street in downtown Malden, it serves the rapid transit Orange Line and the MBTA Commuter Rail Haverhill Line. The station has one island platform for the...

many islands were entrusted to the U.S. by the United Nations, and while the Northern Mariana Islands became a U.S. territory, the Marshall Islands, Federated...

facilities on Christmas Island, and those that had been constructed on Malden Island had to now be duplicated on Christmas Island. Works included 26 blast-proof...

in the Line Islands of the central Pacific (3 at Malden Island and 6 at Kiritimati/Christmas Island); and 24 in the U.S. as part of joint test series)...

A number of islands were claimed as insular areas on behalf of the United States under the Guano Islands Act of 1856. These claims were made by private...

Willow Beach, Willowood; Gordon, North Malden, Quarries; Good Child Beach, Sinasac Corners, The Meadows, Boblo Island French colonists had settled along what...

island.[citation needed] One explanation is that Sarah Ann Island was actually Malden Island, but due to a clerical error it was listed at 4° N instead...

burning taking place. Short Granite Dropped by the United Kingdom over Malden Island in the Pacific on May 15, 1957, during Operation Grapple 1, this bomb...

explosive power on 31 May 1957, during the Grapple 2/Orange Herald tests on Malden Island in the Pacific. Orange Herald remains the largest fission device ever...

mostly south of the island It hosted most of the Operation Dominic drops as well as most of Britain's Operation Grapple. Malden Island, Kiribati 1°40′10″N...

occurred at the Montebello Islands, Emu Field and Maralinga. The British conducted testing in the Pacific Ocean at Malden Island and Kiritimati known at...

Maralinga, South Australia Operation GRAPPLE – May 1957 – September 1958, Malden Island, Kiribati Operation ANTLER – September – October 1957, Maralinga, South...

Area. Malden Island (Closed Area), 39.3 km2 (15.2 sq mi), is a Terrestrial and Inland Waters Protected Area - Wildlife Sanctuary. Starbuck Island (Closed...

maintain military bases on the Islands of Canton, Enderbury or Hull. Line Islands — divided by the treaty. Howland and Baker islands — U.S. possessions not included...

The bomb was dropped from 45,000 feet (14,000 m) off the shore of Malden Island at 10:38 local time on 15 May 1957. Hubbard missed the target by just...

Ocean Passing just west of Malden Island,  Kiribati (at 4°0′S 154°58′W / 4.000°S 154.967°W / -4.000; -154.967 (Malden Island)) 60°0′S 155°0′W / 60...