D'Urville Island is the name of several places:
- D'Urville Island, New Zealand, an island in the Marlborough Sounds along the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand
- D'Urville Island, Antarctica, the northernmost island of the Joinville Island group in Antarctica
Famous quotes containing the word island:
“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)