Island Pond (Rockingham County, New Hampshire) Island Pond (Rockingham County, New Hampshire) Island Pond (sometimes referred to locally as Big Island Pond) is a water body located in Rockingham County in southern New Hampshire, in the towns of Derry, Hampstead and Atkinson. The pond is near the head of the Spicket River watershed, which feeds the Merrimack River in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The pond was formed from the merger of two smaller bodies of water in 1878, when a dam raised the water level by 8.5 feet. The pond is named for Governor's Island, a island that lies within it. The island in turn is named for
Unidentified body on Christmas Island Unidentified body on Christmas Island The unidentified body on Christmas Island was actually found on a life raft in the Indian Ocean, off that island, in 1942. He is widely believed to originate from the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) cruiser HMAS "Sydney", which sank off Western Australia in November 1941, after a mutually destructive battle with the German auxiliary cruiser "Kormoran". While 318 of 399 "Kormoran" personnel survived, "Sydney" was lost with no survivors from the 645 aboard. The locations of the shipwrecks were unknown until they were rediscovered in March 2008. The body was found on 6 February 1942.