Melville Peninsula
Melville Peninsula is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic north of Hudson Bay. To the east is Foxe Basin and to the west the Gulf of Boothia. To the north the Fury and Hecla Strait separates it from Baffin Island.- Peninsula
- …lies at an elevation of 352 metres (1,155 feet)
- …is also known as “Melvillův poloostrov (Nunavut)”
- Description: peninsula in Nunavut, Canada
Melville Peninsula
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
68.04756° or 68° 2′ 51″ north
Longitude
-83.72223° or 83° 43′ 20″ west
Open location code
96WR27XH+24
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Melville Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شبه جزيرة ميلفيل”
- Azerbaijani: “Melvill yarımadası”
- Belarusian: “Мелвіл”
- Belarusian: “Паўвостраў Мелвіл”
- Bulgarian: “Мелвил (полуостров, Канада)”
- Bulgarian: “Мелвил”
- Catalan: “Península de Melville”
- Catalan: “Península Melville”
- Cebuano: “Melville Peninsula”
- Chinese: “梅尔维尔半岛”
- Chinese: “梅爾維爾半島”
- Czech: “Melvillův poloostrov”
- Dutch: “Melville-schiereiland”
- Finnish: “Melvillen niemimaa”
- French: “Peninsule de Melville”
- French: “péninsule de Melville”
- French: “Péninsule de Melville”
- French: “Péninsule Melville”
- Galician: “Península de Melville”
- German: “Melville Peninsula”
- German: “Melville-Halbinsel”
- German: “Melvillův poloostrov (Nunavut)”
- Hebrew: “מלוויל (חצי אי)”
- Icelandic: “Melville-skagi”
- Italian: “Penisola di Melville”
- Japanese: “メルヴィル半島”
- Japanese: “メルビル半島”
- Japanese: “レイ地峡”
- Korean: “멜빌반도”
- Latvian: “Melvila pussala”
- Lithuanian: “Melvilio pusiasalis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Melvillehalvøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melvillehalvøya”
- Norwegian: “Melvillehalvøya”
- Polish: “Półwysep Melville’a”
- Portuguese: “Península de Melville”
- Romanian: “Peninsula Melville”
- Russian: “Мелвилл”
- Slovak: “Melvillov polostrov”
- Spanish: “Peninsula de Melville”
- Spanish: “Península de Melville”
- Spanish: “Peninsula Melville”
- Spanish: “Península Melville”
- Swedish: “Melville Peninsula”
- Ukrainian: “Мелвілл”
- Ukrainian: “Півострів Мелвілл”
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