Maud
Encyclopedia
As a feminine given name:
As a placename:
In literature:
Maud may also refer to:
As a placename:
- In Antarctica:
- Queen Maud LandQueen Maud LandQueen Maud Land is a c. 2.7 million-square-kilometre region of Antarctica claimed as a dependent territory by Norway. The territory lies between 20° west and 45° east, between the British Antarctic Territory to the west and the Australian Antarctic Territory to the east. The latitudinal...
(Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land), an area of 2.5 million square kilometers claimed by Norway in 1938
- Queen Maud Land
- In Canada:
- Queen Maud GulfQueen Maud GulfQueen Maud Gulf lies between the northern coast of the mainland and the southeastern corner of Victoria Island in Nunavut, Canada. At its western end lies Cambridge Bay, leading to Dease Strait; to the east lies Simpson Strait; and to the north, Victoria Strait.It was named by the Norwegian...
, Nunavut, Canada
- Queen Maud Gulf
- In New Zealand:
- Maud IslandMaud IslandMaud Island, originally called Te Hoiere in the Māori language, is the second-largest island in the Marlborough Sounds on the northern tip of the South Island of New Zealand, with a total area of .-Fauna:...
, the second largest island in the Marlborough Sounds
- Maud Island
- In Scotland:
- Maud, AberdeenshireMaud, AberdeenshireMaud is a small town in the Buchan area of the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire. Population 780 . Located 13 miles west of Peterhead on the South Ugie Water, Maud rose to prosperity in the nineteenth century as a railway junction of the Formartine and Buchan Railway that ran through Maud to...
, a small town in the Buchan area of the county of Aberdeenshire
- Maud, Aberdeenshire
- In the United States:
- Maud, OklahomaMaud, OklahomaMaud is a city in Pottawatomie and Seminole counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 1,048 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Maud is located at...
, a city in Pottawatomie County - Maud, TexasMaud, TexasMaud is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Texarkana, Texas - Texarkana, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Maud is located at ....
, a city in Bowie County
- Maud, Oklahoma
In literature:
- Maud and other poemsMaud and other poemsMaud and other poems was Alfred Lord Tennyson's first collection after becoming poet laureate in 1850, published in 1855. Among the "other poems" was "The Charge of the Light Brigade", which had already been published in the Examiner a few months before.-Narrative:The first part of the poem dwells...
, an 1855 volume of poetry by English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson - "Maud" (poem)Maud and other poemsMaud and other poems was Alfred Lord Tennyson's first collection after becoming poet laureate in 1850, published in 1855. Among the "other poems" was "The Charge of the Light Brigade", which had already been published in the Examiner a few months before.-Narrative:The first part of the poem dwells...
, title poem in the 1855 volume by Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Maud, a werecat in the Inheritance Cycle
Maud may also refer to:
- SS Dronning MaudSS Dronning Maud (1925)SS Dronning Maud was 1,489 ton steel-hulled steamship built in 1925 by the Norwegian shipyard Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted in Fredrikstad. Dronning Maud had been ordered by the Trondheim-based company Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskipsselskap for the passenger and freight service Hurtigruten along the...
, a Norwegian HurtigrutenHurtigrutenHurtigruten or Hurtigruta is a Norwegian passenger and freight line with daily sailings along Norway's western and northern coast. Sometimes referred to in English as Norwegian Coastal Express, Hurtigruten ships sail almost the entire length of the country, completing the roundtrip journey in 11...
ship sunk under controversial circumstances by German bombers during the 1940 Norwegian CampaignNorwegian CampaignThe Norwegian Campaign was a military campaign that was fought in Norway during the Second World War between the Allies and Germany, after the latter's invasion of the country. In April 1940, the United Kingdom and France came to Norway's aid with an expeditionary force... - MaudMaud (ship)The Maud, named for Queen Maud of Norway, was a ship built for Roald Amundsen for his second expedition to the Arctic. Designed for his intended voyage through the Northeast Passage, the vessel was specially built at a shipyard in Asker, Norway on the Oslofjord.The Maud was launched in June 1916...
, a ship used from 1918 to 1925 by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in exploring the Northeast Passage (now known as the Northern Sea Route) - Maud a Norfolk wherry built in 1899
- MAUD CommitteeMAUD CommitteeThe MAUD Committee was the beginning of the British atomic bomb project, before the United Kingdom joined forces with the United States in the Manhattan Project.-Frisch & Peierls:...
, the beginning of the British atomic bomb project, before the United Kingdom joined forces with the United States in the Manhattan ProjectManhattan ProjectThe Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army... - MAUD Program, a program for analysis of materials using diffraction, based on the Rietveld refinementRietveld refinementRietveld refinement is a technique devised by Hugo Rietveld for use in the characterisation ofcrystalline materials. The neutron and x-ray diffractionof powder samples results in a pattern characterised by reflections at certain positions...
method, a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919