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I came by chance to this tiny island in Google Earth and it trapped my attention for being at the very center o Pacific Ocean. Then I came here to see if someone would have cared to write something about it, but to my utter surprise there was here a whole lesson about it. I want hartly congratulate its author for such a careful article about a so small and lost piece of land. Capitão Mor (Wikipedia in Portughese) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.43.38.237 ( talk • contribs).
This is a tremendously-well written, accurate and concise telling of the discovery of the discovery of Malden Island. I can add to that information the fact that the islands were first sighted at 7:40 AM on the 30th, and the whaling boat and party landed in the early afternoon that day, during rainy and squally weather. (I know this only because I've got Captain Anson's original log in manuscript of the voyage sitting on my desk at the moment).
Dan Lewis, Ph.D. Curator of American Historical Manuscripts The Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, CA 91108 dlewis@huntington.org
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.223.156.194 ( talk • contribs).
Am I the only one to notice a resemblance to Iraq? I suppose if you look hard enough, you could probably find other islands with similar shapes. It just so happens that I've refferred to Iraq as a "South Pacific Island Nation" as a way of pointing out the fallacy of the notion that the war is somehow a distraction from the larger war on terror. Sorry to bring in politics and something so off-topic, but the resemblance did occur to me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.254.114.69 ( talk • contribs).
Shouldn't this image be rotated so that north is up? I thought that was conventional. The latitude/longitude is also out - should be lat=-4.01784129334, lon=-154.925176134 Or has Google got it wrong? Paul venter 08:34, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
I notice that Malden was used as a testing site for nuclear weapons? Would there still be any trace of the "toxins" still be evident on the island, therefore making it unsafe to live on? FrunkSpace ( talk) 08:23, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I don’t know how much help it is, but the relevant BBC ‘On This Day’ page [1] lists the H-bomb tests as being on Christmas Island. Is clearing this point up, at some point, a good idea … ? 12:29, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks so much, 71.231.47.146, for your excellent recent edit of this article. It reads much better now! - Ecjmartin ( talk) 12:02, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, Ecjmartin. I was mainly concerned with correcting some minor inaccuracies in the sources you relied on for your recent additions. 71.231.47.146 ( talk) 18:22, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I don't know how to do this. Clipper Salamis wrecked there 1905. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?139526 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.92.159.169 ( talk) 12:34, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
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I came by chance to this tiny island in Google Earth and it trapped my attention for being at the very center o Pacific Ocean. Then I came here to see if someone would have cared to write something about it, but to my utter surprise there was here a whole lesson about it. I want hartly congratulate its author for such a careful article about a so small and lost piece of land. Capitão Mor (Wikipedia in Portughese) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.43.38.237 ( talk • contribs).
This is a tremendously-well written, accurate and concise telling of the discovery of the discovery of Malden Island. I can add to that information the fact that the islands were first sighted at 7:40 AM on the 30th, and the whaling boat and party landed in the early afternoon that day, during rainy and squally weather. (I know this only because I've got Captain Anson's original log in manuscript of the voyage sitting on my desk at the moment).
Dan Lewis, Ph.D. Curator of American Historical Manuscripts The Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, CA 91108 dlewis@huntington.org
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.223.156.194 ( talk • contribs).
Am I the only one to notice a resemblance to Iraq? I suppose if you look hard enough, you could probably find other islands with similar shapes. It just so happens that I've refferred to Iraq as a "South Pacific Island Nation" as a way of pointing out the fallacy of the notion that the war is somehow a distraction from the larger war on terror. Sorry to bring in politics and something so off-topic, but the resemblance did occur to me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.254.114.69 ( talk • contribs).
Shouldn't this image be rotated so that north is up? I thought that was conventional. The latitude/longitude is also out - should be lat=-4.01784129334, lon=-154.925176134 Or has Google got it wrong? Paul venter 08:34, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
I notice that Malden was used as a testing site for nuclear weapons? Would there still be any trace of the "toxins" still be evident on the island, therefore making it unsafe to live on? FrunkSpace ( talk) 08:23, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I don’t know how much help it is, but the relevant BBC ‘On This Day’ page [1] lists the H-bomb tests as being on Christmas Island. Is clearing this point up, at some point, a good idea … ? 12:29, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks so much, 71.231.47.146, for your excellent recent edit of this article. It reads much better now! - Ecjmartin ( talk) 12:02, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, Ecjmartin. I was mainly concerned with correcting some minor inaccuracies in the sources you relied on for your recent additions. 71.231.47.146 ( talk) 18:22, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I don't know how to do this. Clipper Salamis wrecked there 1905. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?139526 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.92.159.169 ( talk) 12:34, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
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