Melville Island
Melville Island is an uninhabited member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands of the Arctic Archipelago. With an area of 42,149 km2, it is the 33rd largest island in the world and Canada's eighth largest island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Northwest Territories, Canada
- Also known as: “Melville Island (Canada, Northwest Territories)”
Melville Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Northwest Territories, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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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: “востраў Мелвіл”
- Belarusian: “Мелвіл (востраў)”
- 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”
- Chinese: “梅維爾島”
- Croatian: “Melville (otok)”
- Croatian: “Melville”
- Czech: “Melvillův ostrov”
- Danish: “Melville Island (Northwest Territories og Nunavut)”
- Danish: “Melville Island”
- Dutch: “Melville Island”
- Dutch: “Melville-eiland”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Melville”
- Estonian: “Melville’i saar”
- Fiji Hindi: “Melville Island”
- Finnish: “Melvillensaari”
- French: “île Melville”
- French: “Île Melville”
- French: “Melville Island (Canada, Territoires du Nord-Ouest)”
- 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: “Melville Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Melvilleøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melvilleøya i Canada”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melvilleøya”
- Norwegian: “Melvilleøya”
- Persian: “جزیره ملویل”
- Polish: “Wyspa Melville’a”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Melville”
- Romanian: “Insula Melville, Canada”
- Romanian: “Insula Melville”
- Russian: “Мелвилл”
- Russian: “остров Мелвилла”
- Serbian: “Melvil”
- Serbian: “Melville Island”
- Serbian: “Мелвил”
- Serbian: “Мелвилово острво”
- Serbian: “Острво Мелвил”
- Slovak: “Melvillov ostrov”
- Slovenian: “Melvillov otok, Kanada”
- Slovenian: “Melvillov otok”
- Spanish: “Isla Melville”
- Spanish: “Melville Island”
- Spanish: “Melville”
- Swahili: “Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut)”
- Swahili: “Melville Island”
- Swedish: “Melville Island”
- Swedish: “Melvilleö”
- Swedish: “Melvilleön”
- Tatar: “Мелвилл”
- Turkish: “Melville Adası”
- Turkish: “Melville Island”
- Ukrainian: “Мелвілл”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ میلویل”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Melville”
- Waray (Philippines): “Melville Island”
- 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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