Maud

Not to be confused with Maude (disambiguation).

As a feminine given name:

Main article: Maud (name)

As a placename:

In Antarctica:

• Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land), an area of 2.5 million square kilometers 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, Oklahoma, a city in Pottawatomie County
• Maud, Texas, a city in Bowie County

As a ship name:

• SS Dronning Maud, a Norwegian Hurtigruten ship sunk under controversial circumstances by German bombers during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign
• 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
• USS Maud (SP-1009), 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

Maud may also refer to:

• A grey plaid once worn by shepherds in Scotland
• 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
• MAUDhomme, a Czech men's fashion magazine

See also

• Matilda (disambiguation)