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:
“Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the “very best society” that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of “dressing” to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)