Lake Melville
Lake Melville is an estuary of Hamilton Inlet on the Labrador coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Comprising 3,069 km2 and stretching 140 km inland to Happy Valley-Goose Bay, it forms part of the largest estuary in the province, primarily draining the Churchill River and Naskaupi River watersheds.Lake Melville
- Lake
- Description: saltwater tidal basin in the Labrador region of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
53.72779° or 53° 43′ 40″ north
Longitude
-59.55688° or 59° 33′ 25″ west
Open location code
9852PCHV+46
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Lake Melville” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Мелвил”
- Cebuano: “Lake Melville”
- Chinese: “梅尔维尔湖”
- Chinese: “梅爾維爾湖”
- Chuvash: “Мелвилл”
- Czech: “Melvillovo jezero”
- Dutch: “Lake Melville”
- French: “lac Melville”
- French: “Lac Melville”
- German: “Lake Melville”
- Italian: “lago Melville”
- Italian: “Lago Melville”
- Japanese: “メルヴィル湖”
- Japanese: “メルビル湖”
- Korean: “멜빌호”
- Latvian: “Lake Melville”
- Latvian: “Melvila ezers”
- Latvian: “Melvils”
- Polish: “Jezioro Melville’a”
- Portuguese: “Lago Melville”
- Russian: “Мелвилл”
- Spanish: “Lago Melville”
- Swedish: “Lake Melville”
- Turkish: “Melville Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Мелвілл”
- Venetian: “lago Melville”
- Welsh: “Llyn Melville”
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