Melville Island
Melville Island is an uninhabited member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands of the Arctic Archipelago. With an area of 42,330.26 km2, it is the 33rd largest island in the world and Canada's eighth largest island.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Northwest Territories, Canada
- Also known as: “Melville Island (Canada, Northwest Territories)”, “Melville Island (Canada, Territoires du Nord-Ouest)”, “Melvilleö”, “востраў Мелвіл”, “Мелвилово острво”, “Мелвіл (востраў)”, “Острво Мелвил”, and “остров Мелвилла”
Melville Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Northwest Territories, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
75.50135° or 75° 30′ 5″ north
Longitude
-113.50515° or 113° 30′ 19″ west
Elevation
369 metres (1,211 feet)
Open location code
C578GF2V+GW
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Melville Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Melville-eiland”
- Arabic: “جزيرة ميلفيل”
- Armenian: “Մելվիլ (կղզի)”
- Armenian: “Մելվիլ”
- Asturian: “Islla Melville”
- Azerbaijani: “Melvill”
- Bashkir: “Мелвилл (утрау, Канада)”
- Bashkir: “Мелвилл”
- Basque: “Melville uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Мелвіл”
- Belarusian: “Мэлвіл”
- Bulgarian: “Мелвил”
- Catalan: “illa de Melville”
- Catalan: “Illa de Melville”
- Cebuano: “Melville Island”
- Chinese: “梅尔维尔岛”
- Chinese: “梅爾維爾島”
- Croatian: “Melville (otok)”
- Croatian: “Melville”
- Czech: “Melvillův ostrov”
- Danish: “Melville Island (Northwest Territories og Nunavut)”
- Danish: “Melville Island”
- Dutch: “Melville-eiland”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Melville”
- Estonian: “Melville’i saar”
- Fiji Hindi: “Melville Island”
- Finnish: “Melvillensaari”
- French: “île Melville”
- French: “Île Melville”
- Galician: “Illa Melville”
- Georgian: “მელვილი”
- German: “Melville Island”
- German: “Melville-Insel”
- Greek: “Μέλβιλ”
- Greek: “Νήσος Μέλβιλ”
- Hebrew: “מלוויל”
- Hungarian: “Melville-sziget”
- Interlingua: “Insula de Melville”
- Irish: “Oileán Melville”
- Italian: “isola di Melville”
- Italian: “Isola di Melville”
- Japanese: “メルヴィル島”
- Kazakh: “Мелвилл (арал, Канада)”
- Kazakh: “Мелвилл”
- Kirghiz: “Мелвилл”
- Korean: “멜빌섬”
- Latin: “Insula Melvillii”
- Latvian: “Melvila sala (Kanāda)”
- Latvian: “Melvila sala”
- Lithuanian: “Melvilio sala”
- Macedonian: “Мелвил”
- Malayalam: “മെൽവില്ലെ ദ്വീപ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Melvilleøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melvilleøya i Canada”
- Norwegian: “Melvilleøya”
- Persian: “جزیره ملویل”
- Polish: “Wyspa Melville’a”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Melville”
- Romanian: “Insula Melville, Canada”
- Romanian: “Insula Melville”
- Russian: “Мелвилл”
- Serbian: “Melvil”
- Serbian: “Мелвил”
- Slovak: “Melvillov ostrov”
- Slovenian: “Melvillov otok, Kanada”
- Slovenian: “Melvillov otok”
- Spanish: “Isla Melville”
- Swahili: “Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut)”
- Swahili: “Melville Island”
- Swedish: “Melvilleön”
- Tatar: “Мелвилл”
- Turkish: “Melville Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Мелвілл”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ میلویل”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Melville”
- Waray (Philippines): “Purô han Melville”
- Welsh: “Ynys Melville”
- Wu Chinese: “梅尔维尔岛 (加拿大)”
- Wu Chinese: “梅尔维尔岛（加拿大）”
- Yue Chinese: “梅維爾島”
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