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 identifi ...

Melville Peak Melville Peak is a prominent peak surmounting Cape Melville, the eastern cape of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands off Antarctica. It represents an eroded stratovolcano of unknown age and contains a volcanic crater at its summit. ...

, 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 Charle ...

, Queensland *

City of Melville, Western Australia The City of Melville is a Local government areas of Western Australia, local government area in the southern List of Perth suburbs, suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, east of the port city of Fremantle and about south of ...

, 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 se ...

, Western Australia *

Melville Bay Melville Bay (; ), 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, ''Qimusseriarsuaq'', means "the great dog sledding pla ...

, Northern Territory *

Melville Island, Northern Territory Melville Island () 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 Islands, which are unde ...

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 (Western Australia), Swan River. Melville Water was nam ...

, a suburb of Perth

Canada

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

, 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 red ...

, 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 Ac ...

, Saskatchewan *

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 ...

, Newfoundland and Labrador *

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 Ba ...

, 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. (; , ) is an uninhabited member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands of the Arctic Archipelago. With an area of , it is the 33rd largest island in the world and Canada's eighth largest islan ...

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. It is part of the Halifax Regional Municipality. The site was discovered by Europeans in the 17th century, t ...

, 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 c ...

, in Halifax Harbour * Melville, Inverness County, Nova Scotia *

Melville, Pictou County, Nova Scotia Melville is an unincorporated area in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Pictou County. It is on Nova Scotia Trunk 6 between the communities of River John, Cape John and Toney River. It is a rural area on the Northumberland Stra ...

*Melville, a community within the town of

Caledon, Ontario Caledon (; 2021 Canadian census, 2021 population 76,581) is a town (Ontario), town in the Regional Municipality of Peel in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. The name comes from a shortened form of Caledonia, the Roman name for what is ...

*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 ...

, British Columbia * Melville Island, a small island near

Dundas Island, British Columbia Dundas Island () is an island on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, 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. History The island and its a ...

*Melville Island, on

Saint-Maurice River The Saint-Maurice River (, ; ) is one of the main tributaries of the St. Lawrence River, after the Ottawa River, Ottawa and the Saguenay River, Saguenay Rivers and drains an area of 42,735 km2. It touches the Lac Saint-Jean, Lake Saint John waters ...

, in Shawinigan, Mauricie, Quebec

Greenland

Cape Melville (Greenland) Cape Melville (; ) 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 Meteor Bay. The cape lies at the no ...

(Nallortup Nuua) *

, Greenland *

Melville Glacier (Greenland) Melville Glacier (), 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 of the Bureau of Ste ...

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 Exp ...

, Greenland *

Melville Monument (Greenland) Melville Monument () 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. The island is ...

(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 Univer ...

, a suburb of Johannesburg *

Melville, KwaZulu-Natal Melville is a coastal resort village situated along the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Culture and comptemptory life Melville is a quiet and small coastal village often regarded as something of an extension of Port Shepstone ...

, 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 C ...

, a town * Melville Township, Renville County, Minnesota * Melville, Montana, an unincorporated community *

Melville, New York Melville is an affluent Hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Huntington, New York, Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York (state), New York, United States. The pop ...

, a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Huntington * Melville, North Dakota, an unincorporated community * Melville, Oregon, an unincorporated community * Melville, Rhode Island, a village * Melville (Surry, Virginia), a historic house *

Melville, West Virginia Melville is an unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The U ...

, an unincorporated community

Elsewhere

* Melville, New Zealand, a suburb of Hamilton * Melville (crater), on the planet Mercury

People

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 * 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 tim ...

, 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), a 1991 album by the Rheostatics *

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

, a defunct American retail holding corporation *

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 t ...

, a defunct American corporation * The Melville, 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 ...

* Melville Productions, a film production company formed by actor Gregory Peck