Melville Island
Melville Island is an island in the eastern Timor Sea, off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia. Along with Bathurst Island and nine smaller uninhabited islands, it forms part of the group known as the Tiwi Islands, which are under the jurisdiction of the Northern Territory in association with the Tiwi Land Council as the regional authority.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: one of the Tiwi Islands, off the northern Australian coast
- Also known as: “Yermalner”
Melville Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania
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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: “Isla Melville”
- Asturian: “Islla Melville”
- Azerbaijani: “Melvill”
- Belarusian: “востраў Мелвіл”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Мелвіл”
- Belarusian: “Мелвіл (востраў)”
- 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”
- Chinese: “梅維爾島”
- Czech: “Melvillův ostrov”
- Dutch: “Melville-eiland”
- Dutch: “Melville”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره ملفيل”
- Finnish: “Melvillensaari”
- French: “Ile Melville”
- French: “île Melville”
- French: “Île Melville”
- Galician: “Illa Melville, Australia”
- Galician: “Illa Melville”
- Georgian: “მელვილი”
- German: “Melville Island”
- German: “Melville-Insel”
- Greek: “Νήσος Μέλβιλ”
- Hebrew: “מלוויל”
- Hungarian: “Melville-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Melville”
- Italian: “Isola Melville”
- Italian: “Melville”
- Japanese: “メルヴィル島”
- Korean: “멜빌 섬”
- Korean: “멜빌섬”
- Latvian: “Melvila sala (Austrālija)”
- Latvian: “Melvila sala”
- Literary Chinese: “Île Melville”
- Literary Chinese: “梅爾維爾島”
- Lithuanian: “Melvilio sala”
- Macedonian: “Мелвил”
- Malayalam: “മെൽവില്ലെ ദ്വീപ്(ആസ്ട്രേലിയ)”
- Malayalam: “മെൽവില്ലെ ദ്വീപ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Melville Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Melvilleøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melvilleøya i Australia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melvilleøya”
- Norwegian: “Melvilleøya”
- Persian: “جزیره ملویل”
- Polish: “Wyspa Melville’a”
- Polish: “Wyspa Melvillea”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Melville”
- Russian: “Мелвилл”
- Russian: “остров Мелвилла”
- Slovak: “Melvillov ostrov”
- Slovenian: “Melville Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Melville”
- Spanish: “Melville”
- Swedish: “Melville Island”
- Swedish: “Melvilleö”
- Swedish: “Melvilleön”
- Tamil: “மெல்வில் தீவு, ஆஸ்திரேலியா”
- Tamil: “மெல்வில் தீவு”
- Turkish: “Melville Adası”
- Turkish: “Melville Island”
- Ukrainian: “Мелвілл”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Melville”
- Welsh: “Melville Island”
- Yue Chinese: “梅維爾島 (澳洲)”
- “मेलविले दीप”
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