Melville may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

Cape Melville (South Shetland Islands) Cape Melville, is a low-lying, ice-free Cape (geography), headland at the eastern end of King George Island (South Shetland Islands), King George Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Some 388 ha of the site has been identifie ...

Melville Peak Melville Peak is a prominent summit (topography), peak surmounting Cape Melville (South Shetland Islands), Cape Melville, the eastern cape of King George Island (South Shetland Islands), King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands off Antarct ...

, King George Island * Melville Glacier, Graham Land * Melville Highlands, Laurie Island * Melville Point, Marie Byrd Land

Australia

Cape Melville Cape Melville is a headland on the eastern coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. To its west lies Princess Charlotte Bay. It is part of the Cape Melville National Park. Cape Melville was named Stoney Cape in 1815 by Lieutenant Charles ...

, Queensland *

City of Melville, Western Australia The City of Melville is a local government area in the southern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, east of the port city of Fremantle and about south of Perth's central business district. The City covers an area of an ...

, the local government authority *

Electoral district of Melville Melville was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1950 to 1996. The district was based in the southern suburbs of Perth. History First contested at the 1950 state election, the s ...

, Western Australia *

Melville Bay Melville Bay ( kl, Qimusseriarsuaq; da, Melville Bugt), is a large bay off the coast of northwestern Greenland. Located to the north of the Upernavik Archipelago, it opens to the south-west into Baffin Bay. Its Kalaallisut name, ''Qimusseriars ...

, Northern Territory *

Melville Island, Northern Territory Melville Island ( Tiwi: ''Yermalner'') is an island in the eastern Timor Sea, off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia. Along with Bathurst Island and nine smaller uninhabited islands, it forms part of the group known as the Tiwi Isl ...

Melville, Western Australia Melville is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia located within the likewise named City of Melville. History Melville is named after the nearby Melville Water, a section of the Swan River. Melville Water was named after Robert Dundas, 2nd Vis ...

, a suburb of Perth

Canada

Melville, Saskatchewan Melville is a small city in the east-central portion of Saskatchewan, Canada. The city is northeast of the provincial capital of Regina and southwest of Yorkton. Melville is bordered by the rural municipalities of Cana No. 214 and Stanley No ...

, a city *

Melville (electoral district) Melville was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1968. This riding was created in 1924 from parts of Saltcoats riding. It was abolished in 1966 when it was redis ...

, Saskatchewan, a federal electoral district *

Melville (provincial electoral district) Melville was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. Located in southeastern Saskatchewan, this constituency was created before the 8th Saskatchewan general election in 1934. The ''Representation Act, ...

, Saskatchewan *Melville, a community within the town of

Caledon, Ontario Caledon (; Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population 76,581) is a town in the Regional Municipality of Peel in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. From a shortened form of Caledonia, the Roman name for North Britain; Caledon is a developing u ...

Melville Peninsula Melville Peninsula is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic north of Hudson Bay. To the east is Foxe Basin and to the west the Gulf of Boothia. To the north the Fury and Hecla Strait separates it from Baffin Island. To the south Repulse Bay ...

, Nunavut *

Melville Sound Tariyunnuaq formerly Melville Sound is an Arctic waterway in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located south of Kiillinnguyaq, and north of the main part of the Nunavut mainland. To the west it opens into Bathurst Inlet Bathurst ...

, Nunavut *

Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut) Melville IslandCoordinates are located on the NWT side. (french: Île Melville; Inuktitut: ''ᐃᓗᓪᓕᖅ, Ilulliq'') is an uninhabited island of the Arctic Archipelago with an area of . It is the 33rd largest island in the world and C ...

Melville Island (Nova Scotia) Melville Island is a small peninsula in Nova Scotia, Canada, located in the Northwest Arm of Halifax Harbour, west of Deadman's Island (Nova Scotia), Deadman's Island. It is part of the Halifax Regional Municipality. The land is rocky, with thin, ...

, in Halifax Harbour *

Melville Cove, Halifax Melville Cove is a residential subdivision in Armdale on Mainland Halifax within the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia on the shore of the Northwest Arm in Halifax Harbour Halifax Harbour is a large natural harbour on the Atlantic coas ...

, in Halifax Harbour *Melville Island, a small island in the

Discovery Islands The Discovery Islands are a group of islands located at the northern end of the Salish Sea and the eastern end of Johnstone Strait, between Vancouver Island and the mainland coast of British Columbia, Canada. Most of these islands have very few ...

, British Columbia * Melville Island, a small island near

Dundas Island, British Columbia Dundas Island (french: île Dundas) is an island on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located on the west side of Chatham Sound to the northwest of Prince Rupert. It is the largest of a group of islands known as the Dundas Islands. His ...

*Melville Island, on

Saint-Maurice River The Saint-Maurice River (french: Rivière Saint-Maurice; Atikamekw: ''Tapiskwan sipi'') flows north to south in central Quebec from Gouin Reservoir to empty into the Saint Lawrence River at Trois-Rivières, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. F ...

, in Shawinigan, Mauricie, Quebec *

Lake Melville Lake Melville is an estuary of Hamilton Inlet (itself an extension of Groswater Bay) on the Labrador coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Comprising and stretching inland to Happy Valley-Goose Bay, it forms part of the l ...

, Labrador

Greenland

Cape Melville (Greenland) Cape Melville ( da, Kap Melville; kl, Nallortup Nuua) is a headland in the Avannaata municipality, NW Greenland.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 84 Geography Cape Melville is located at the eastern end of M ...

(Nallortup Nuua) *

, Greenland *

Melville Glacier (Greenland) Melville Glacier ( da, Melville Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Chief Engineer George W. Melville (1841 – 1912), Chief ...

Melville Land Melville Land is an area in Peary Land, North Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.Google Maps History Robert Peary named the territory, together with Heilprin Land, in 1892 during his North Greenland Ex ...

, Greenland *

Melville Monument (Greenland) Melville Monument ( kl, Usuussarsuaq) is an island in the Avannaata municipality, NW Greenland.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 200 It was named "Melville Monument" by Arctic explorer Sir John Ross in July 1818 ...

(Usuussarsuaq)

South Africa

Melville, Gauteng Melville is a bohemian suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. It is the location of many restaurants and taverns, which are mostly frequented by students from the nearby University of Johannesburg, located in Auckland Park, and the Univers ...

, a suburb of Johannesburg *

Melville, KwaZulu-Natal Melville is a seaside resort village on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Melville is a quiet and small seaside village regarded as something of an extension of Port Shepstone with no shopping centre or public transport to spea ...

, a seaside village on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal

United States

Melville, Louisiana Melville is a town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,041 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Opelousas−Eunice Micropolitan Statistical Area. It was founded in 1889 and is known as the Atchafalaya River Catf ...

, a town * Melville Township, Renville County, Minnesota *

Melville, Montana Melville is an unincorporated community in northern Sweet Grass County, Montana, United States. It lies along local roads just west of U.S. Route 191, north of the city of Big Timber, the county seat of Sweet Grass County. Its elevation is 5,020 ...

, an unincorporated community *

Melville, New York Melville is an affluent hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York. The population was 19,284 at the 2020 census. History The area was known to the Native Americans as ''Suns ...

, a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Huntington * Melville, North Dakota, an unincorporated community *

Melville, Oregon Melville is an unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, whil ...

, an unincorporated community *

Melville, Rhode Island Melville is a census-designated place (CDP) in the towns of Middletown and Portsmouth in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. It lies along the shore of Narragansett Bay. The population of the CDP was 1,320 at the 2010 census. The CDP i ...

, a village *

Melville (Surry, Virginia) Melville is a historic home located near Surry, Surry County, Virginia. It was built about 1727, and is a -story, hall-parlor plan brick dwelling. It has a clipped gable roof with three pedimented dormers and features tall interior end chimne ...

, a historic house *

Melville, West Virginia Melville is an unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers ...

, an unincorporated community

Elsewhere

Melville, New Zealand Melville is a suburb in southern Hamilton in New Zealand. It is named after James Dougal Melville. Many of the streets in Melville are named after war heroes, including Douglas Bader, Bernard Montgomery, Odette Hallowes, David Beatty and Willia ...

, a suburb of Hamilton *

Melville (crater) Melville is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 154 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Melville is named for the American novelist Herman Melville Herman Melville ( born Melvill; A ...

, on the planet Mercury

People

Melville (name) Melville is a surname and a given name. The surname has two different origins: Scottish and Irish. In Scotland, the name is a habitational name, originally of Norman origin, derived from any of several places called Malleville in Normandy. The p ...

, including lists of people with the surname, given name or pen name

Ships

*, three ships of the Royal Navy *, two ships named in honor of George W. Melville *, a ship and a shore establishment of the Royal Australian Navy * R/V ''Melville'', an oceanographic research vessel

Titles

Earl of Melville Earl of Melville is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1690 for the Scottish soldier and statesman George Melville, 4th Lord Melville. He was made Lord Raith, Monymaill and Balwearie and Viscount of Kirkcaldy at the same time ...

, in the Peerage of Scotland *

Viscount Melville Viscount Melville, of Melville in the County of Edinburgh, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Origins The title was created on 24 December 1802 for the notable lawyer and politician Henry Dundas. He was created Baron Dunira, '' ...

, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Other uses

* ''Melville'' (album), 1991 album by the Rheostatics *

Melville Corporation Melville Corporation, formerly based in Rye, New York, was a large retail holding company incorporated by Ward Melville in 1922 from Melville Shoe Corporation, Melville Shoe Company. It became CVS Corporation in 1996 under a massive reorganization ...

, a defunct American retail holding corporation * Melville Shoe Corporation, a defunct American corporation *

The Melville The Melville is a skyscraper located at 1189 Melville Street in the Coal Harbour neighbourhood of the city's Downtown Vancouver, downtown core of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The building is the sixth tallest building in the city. The M ...

, a skyscraper in Vancouver, Canada * Melville Bridge Club, Edinburgh, Scotland *Melville AFC, a former New Zealand football team, now part of

Melville United AFC Melville United AFC is an amateur football club in Melville, Hamilton, New Zealand. It competes in the Northern League. History The club was formed in 1996 from the merger of Melville AFC (founded 1972) and Waikato United (founded 1988). Th ...