Maud Explained

As a name

Feminine given name

See main article: Maud (given name).

Royal name

See main article: Queen Maud (disambiguation) and Princess Maud (disambiguation).

Placename

In Antarctica:

• Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land|links=no), an area of 2.5 million square kilometers (1 million sq. mi.) claimed by Norway in 1938

In Canada:

• Queen Maud Gulf, Nunavut, Canada

In New Zealand:

• Maud Island, the second largest island in the Marlborough Sounds

In Scotland:

• Maud, Aberdeenshire, a small town in the Buchan area of the county of Aberdeenshire

In the United States:

• Maud, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Wabash County

• Maud, Iowa, an unincorporated community in Allamakee County

• Maud, Missouri, an unincorporated community

• Maud, Oklahoma, a city in Pottawatomie County

• Maud, Texas, a city in Bowie County

• Maud, Washington, an unincorporated community

Ship name

• HNoMS Maud, a replenishment ship of the Royal Norwegian Navy, currently being fitted out
• Maud, 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
• SS Dronning Maud, a Norwegian Hurtigruten ship sunk under controversial circumstances by German bombers during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign
• SS Princess Maud (1902), a passenger/cargo steamship torpedoed in 1918
• TSS Princess Maud (1934), a ferry generally plying the Irish Sea but also a troopship in the Second World War
• , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919

In literature

• Maud and other poems, an 1855 volume of poetry by English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• "Maud" (poem), title poem in the 1855 volume by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Maud, a werecat in the Inheritance Cycle

Other uses

Maud may also refer to:

• Maud (plaid), a black and white checked plaid once worn in southern Scotland and northern England
• MAUD Committee, the beginning of the British atomic bomb project, before the United Kingdom joined forces with the United States in the Manhattan Project
• MAUD Program, a program for analysis of materials using diffraction, based on the Rietveld refinement method
• Maud Pie, a character in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

See also

• Matilda (disambiguation)