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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 Islands, which are under the jurisdiction of the Northern Territory in association with the Tiwi Land Council as the regional authority.
Melville Island [1] (French: île Melville [citation needed]; Inuktitut: ᐃᓗᓪᓕᖅ, Ilulliq [citation needed]) is an uninhabited member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands of the Arctic Archipelago. With an area of 42,149 km 2 (16,274 sq mi), it is the 33rd largest island in the world and Canada's eighth largest island.
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, though it was likely earlier explored by Indigenous peoples.
Location of Fort Dundas on Melville Island. Fort Dundas was a short-lived British settlement on Melville Island between 1824 and 1828 in what is now the Northern Territory of Australia. It was the first of four British settlement attempts in northern Australia before Goyder's survey and establishment of Palmerston, now known as Darwin.
Milikapiti Ward (northeast Melville Island, largest) Nguiu Ward (south Bathurst Island, Buchanan Island) Pirlangimpi Ward (west and southwest Melville Island) Wurankuwu Ward (north Bathurst Island) In 2011–12, the operating budget of the then Tiwi Islands Shire Council was A$26.4 million. [31]
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 Plaque, Armdale Yacht Club, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The land was officially named Melville Island in late 1804 or early 1805 in honour of prominent abolitionist Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville (who at the time had just been appointed First Lord of the Admiralty).
Snake Bay Airport (IATA: SNB, ICAO: YSNK) is located at Milikapiti, Northern Territory on the northern coast of Melville Island, Australia. History. World War II