Melville Island

Melville Island may refer to:

  • Melville Island (Australia), in the Northern Territory
  • Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut), in northern Canada
  • Melville Island (Nova Scotia), a small island in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Melville Island, a small island in the Discovery Islands near Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada
  • Melville Island, a small island near Dundas Island near Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada

Famous quotes containing the words melville and/or island:

    “The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other’s superscriptions.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The shifting islands! who would not be willing that his house should be undermined by such a foe! The inhabitant of an island can tell what currents formed the land which he cultivates; and his earth is still being created or destroyed. There before his door, perchance, still empties the stream which brought down the material of his farm ages before, and is still bringing it down or washing it away,—the graceful, gentle robber!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)