Melville Island

Melville Island is an island in the eastern Timor Sea, off the coast of the , . Along with and nine smaller uninhabited islands, it forms part of the group known as the , which are under the jurisdiction of the Northern Territory in association with the Tiwi Land Council as the regional authority.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: one of the Tiwi Islands, off the northern Australian coast
  • Also known as: “Ile Melville”, “Isola Melville”, “Melville-Insel”, “Melvilleö”, “Yermalner”, “востраў Мелвіл”, “Мелвіл (востраў)”, and “остров Мелвилла”

Melville Island

Latitude
-11.52376° or 11° 31′ 26″ south
Longitude
131.04424° or 131° 2′ 39″ east
Population
1,030
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
Open location code
5QWHF2GV+FM
Geo­Names ID
8180312
Wiki­data ID
Q504763
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Melville Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة ملفيل”
  • Armenian: “Մելվիլյան կղզիներ”
  • Asturian: “Islla Melville”
  • Azerbaijani: “Melvill”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Мелвіл”
  • Belarusian: “Мелвіл”
  • Bhojpuri: “मेलविले दीप (आस्ट्रेलिया)”
  • Bulgarian: “Мелвил”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Melville”
  • Cebuano: “Melville Island”
  • Chinese: “梅尔维尔岛”
  • Chinese: “梅爾維爾島”
  • Czech: “Melvillův ostrov”
  • Dutch: “Melville-eiland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره ملفيل”
  • Finnish: “Melvillensaari”
  • French: “île Melville”
  • French: “Île Melville”
  • Galician: “Illa Melville, Australia”
  • Galician: “Illa Melville”
  • Georgian: “მელვილი”
  • German: “Melville Island”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Μέλβιλ”
  • Hebrew: “מלוויל”
  • Hungarian: “Melville-sziget”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Melville”
  • Italian: “Melville”
  • Japanese: “メルヴィル島”
  • Korean: “멜빌 섬”
  • Korean: “멜빌섬”
  • Latvian: “Melvila sala (Austrālija)”
  • Latvian: “Melvila sala”
  • Literary Chinese: “梅爾維爾島”
  • Lithuanian: “Melvilio sala”
  • Macedonian: “Мелвил”
  • Malayalam: “മെൽവില്ലെ ദ്വീപ്(ആസ്ട്രേലിയ)”
  • Malayalam: “മെൽവില്ലെ ദ്വീപ്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melvilleøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melvilleøya i Australia”
  • Norwegian: “Melvilleøya”
  • Persian: “جزیره ملویل”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Melville’a”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Melvillea”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Melville”
  • Russian: “Мелвилл”
  • Slovak: “Melvillov ostrov”
  • Slovenian: “Melville Island”
  • Spanish: “Isla Melville”
  • Swedish: “Melvilleön”
  • Tamil: “மெல்வில் தீவு, ஆஸ்திரேலியா”
  • Tamil: “மெல்வில் தீவு”
  • Turkish: “Melville Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Мелвілл”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Melville”
  • Welsh: “Melville Island”
  • Yue Chinese: “梅維爾島 (澳洲)”
  • Yue Chinese: “梅維爾島”
  • “मेलविले दीप”

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