Nelson Island

Nelson Island may refer to:

  • Nelson Island (Alaska)
  • Nelson Island (Chagos Archipelago)
  • Nelson Island (South Shetland Islands)
  • Nelson Island, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Nelson Island (British Columbia)
  • Nelson's Island, an island in Abu Qir Bay, Egypt
  • Nelson Island (Talbot County, Maryland), an island of Maryland
  • Nelson Island (Montana), an island in the Missouri River

Famous quotes containing the words nelson and/or island:

    “From now on, if I ever get to burn another newspaper, I’ll remember what a few cents can buy.”
    —Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Captain Nelson (Errol Flynn)

    “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)