Melville may refer to:
Places
Antarctica
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Cape Melville (South Shetland Islands)
Cape Melville, is a low-lying, ice-free headland at the eastern end of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Some 388 ha of the site has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International be ...
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Melville Peak, King George Island
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Melville Glacier
Melville Glacier () is a glacier, long, between Mapple Glacier and Pequod Glacier on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It flows eastwards between Stevrek Ridge and Parlichev Ridge in the Aristotle Mountains, to enter Domlyan Bay in the W ...
, Graham Land
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Melville Highlands
The Melville Highlands () are an ice-covered upland rising to about and forming the central part of Laurie Island between Pirie Peninsula and the south coast, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica. The name derives from James Weddell's map of ...
, Laurie Island
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Melville Point Melville Point () is a point marking the east side of the entrance to Siniff Bay on the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65, and was named by the A ...
, Marie Byrd Land
Australia
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Cape Melville, Queensland
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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 and h ...
, the local government authority
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Electoral district of Melville, Western Australia
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Melville Bay, Northern Territory
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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 Is ...
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Melville, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth
Canada
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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 N ...
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Melville (electoral district), Saskatchewan, a federal electoral district
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Melville (provincial electoral district), Saskatchewan
*Melville, a community within the town of
Caledon, Ontario
Caledon (; 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 urban area, althou ...
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Melville Peninsula, Nunavut
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Melville Sound, Nunavut
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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 Ca ...
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Melville Island (Nova Scotia), in Halifax Harbour
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Melville Cove, Halifax, in Halifax Harbour
*Melville Island, a small island in the
Discovery Islands, British Columbia
* Melville Island, a small island near
Dundas Island, British Columbia
*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 ...
, in Shawinigan, Mauricie, Quebec
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Lake Melville, Labrador
Greenland
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Cape Melville (Greenland) (Nallortup Nuua)
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Melville Bay, Greenland
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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 ...
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Melville Land, Greenland
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Melville Monument (Greenland) (Usuussarsuaq)
South Africa
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Melville, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg
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Melville, KwaZulu-Natal, a seaside village on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal
United States
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Melville, Louisiana, a town
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Melville Township, Renville County, Minnesota
Melville Township is a township in Renville County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 242 at the 2000 census.
Melville Township was organized in 1878.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total ar ...
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Melville, Montana, an unincorporated community
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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
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Melville, North Dakota
Melville is an unincorporated community in Foster County, North Dakota, United States. Melville is located along U.S. routes 52 and 281 and the Red River Valley and Western Railroad, south-southeast of Carrington. Melville was originally named ...
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Melville, Oregon, an unincorporated community
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Melville, Rhode Island
Melville is a census-designated place (CDP) in the New England town, towns of Middletown, Rhode Island, Middletown and Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Portsmouth in Newport County, Rhode Island, Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. It lies along ...
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Melville (Surry, Virginia), a historic house
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Melville, West Virginia
Melville is an unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States. The community of Melville was established in 1967.
Mining accident
Melville is the location of the Aracoma Alma Mine No. 1 that caught fire on January 19, ...
, an unincorporated community
Elsewhere
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Melville, New Zealand, a suburb of Hamilton
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Melville (crater), on the planet Mercury
People
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Melville (name)
Melville is a surname and a given name.
The surname has two different origins: Scotland, Scottish and Ireland, Irish. In Scotland, the name is a habitational name, originally of Norman origin, derived from any of several places called Malleville ...
, 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
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R/V ''Melville'', an oceanographic research vessel
Titles
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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 tim ...
, in the Peerage of Scotland
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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
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''Melville'' (album), 1991 album by the Rheostatics
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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 Company. It became CVS Corporation in 1996 under a massive reorganization plan. The company traded ...
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Melville Shoe Corporation
The Melville Shoe Corporation was a Harrison, New York-based''Melville Closes Acquisition'', Wall Street Journal, April 15, 1976, pg. 16. shoe company.
Founded by Frank Melville in 1892, the company was incorporated in 1916. From its inception th ...
, a defunct American corporation
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The Melville, a skyscraper in Vancouver, Canada
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Melville Bridge Club
The New Melville Bridge Club is a contract bridge club situated a little outside the centre of Edinburgh. It was established in 1936 as the Melville Bridge Club and changed its name when it moved to its present premises in 2013. With about 300 m ...
, Edinburgh, Scotland
*Melville AFC, a former New Zealand football team, now part of
Melville United AFC
See also
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Melville Castle, a mansion in Midlothian, Scotland
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Melville House, Fife, Scotland
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Mulville Mulville is a surname. People with that name include:
* Daniel Mulville (born 1939), American engineer who served briefly as Acting Administrator of NASA in 2001
* Jacqui Mulville (active from 1995), British bioarchaeologist
* Jimmy Mulville
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, a surname
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