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:

    “Oh, men are jailers all; jailers of themselves; and in Opinion’s world ignorantly hold their noblest part a captive to their vilest.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “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)