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Melville C. Wilkinson
Melville may refer to: Places Antarctica *Cape Melville (South Shetland Islands) * Melville Peak, King George Island * Melville Glacier, Graham Land * Melville Highlands, Laurie Island * Melville Point, Marie Byrd Land Australia *Cape Melville, Queensland * City of Melville, Western Australia, the local government authority *Electoral district of Melville, Western Australia * Melville Bay, Northern Territory *Melville Island, Northern Territory *Melville, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth Canada *Melville, Saskatchewan, a city *Melville (electoral district), Saskatchewan, a federal electoral district *Melville (provincial electoral district), Saskatchewan *Lake Melville, Newfoundland and Labrador *Melville Peninsula, Nunavut * Melville Sound, Nunavut *Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut) * Melville Island (Nova Scotia), in Halifax Harbour * Melville Cove, Halifax, in Halifax Harbour * Melville, Inverness County, Nova Scotia * Melville, Pictou County, Nova Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a large bird colony, breeding colony of about pairs of chinstrap penguins. south of Cape Melville is a rock named Livonia Rock. References Important Bird Areas of Antarctica Penguin colonies Headlands of King George Island (South Shetland Islands), Melville {{KingGeorgeIslandAQ-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 island. Mountains on Melville Island, some of the largest in the western Canadian Arctic, reach heights of . Melville Island is shared by the Northwest Territories, which is responsible for the western half of the island, and Nunavut, which is responsible for most of the eastern half. The border runs along the 110th meridian west. The eastern half of the island contains two subnational pene-exclaves that lie west of the 110th meridian and form part of the Northwest Territories. These can be reached by land only from Nunavut. Geography The island is located between Prince Patrick Island in the northwest, Eglinton Island in the west, and Byam Martin Island in the east. Across Viscount Melville Sound in the south lies Victoria Islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 University of the Witwatersrand, located in Braamfontein. It is one of the city's most popular tourist destinations. The suburb is to the west of the Johannesburg CBD. It is located in Region B of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. History Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on land of one of the original farms that make up Johannesburg, called ''Braamfontein''. The suburb was proclaimed on 5 October 1896, and is named after the land surveyor, Edward Harker Vincent Melvill. In the public sale notice, the suburb was described as a "picturesque and healthy spot in the vicinity of Johannesburg with a magnificent view of the wooded country to the north with the blue Pretoria ranges stretching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 located in Melville Bay, separated from the coast by a narrow sound. It is a peaked island, familiar to Arctic navigators, similar to Kullorsuaq further south, but smaller. __NOTOC__ Literature * Clements R. Markham, ''Life of Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock,''T. C. Chamberlin, ''Glacial Studies in Greenland. III. Coast Glaciers between Disco Island and Inglefield Gulf'' See also *List of islands of Greenland The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many of these islands have both a Kalaallisut language name and a Indo-European languages, European language name. Islands and archipelagoes *Aaluik *Aasiaat *Achton Friis Is ... References External linksSeabird colonies in the Melville Bay, Northwest Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Expedition sponsored by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He named it after Chief Engineer George W. Melville (1841–1912), chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering of the United States Navy. Peary sighted the coast of Melville Land shore from afar to the northeast. He drew a rough map based on the panorama that he saw from Navy Cliff, at the head of Independence Fjord, but did not explore the area.Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920, ''Northward over the great ice: a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Steam Engineering.Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, ''In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition,'' 2011 p. 373 Geography The Melville Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet and has its terminus in the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord just north of Josephine Peary Island. Its last stretch lies between two nunataks: Mount Lee in the east separates it from the Farquhar Glacier to the east, and Mount Asserson, in the west, separates it from the Sharp Glacier to the west. The Melville Glacier flows roughly from NE to SW. In the same manner as its neighboring glaciers, it has retreated by approximately in the period between the 1980s and 2014. See also *List of glaciers in Greenland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 northern limits of Melville Bay to the east of Cape York (Greenland), Cape York. A chain of small coastal islands stretches between the two capes, the largest of which is Meteorite Island. See also *Cape York meteorite References Headlands of Greenland, Melville {{Greenland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 watershed to the north; the Nottaway River watershed, a major tributary of James Bay, to the northwest; and the southwestern tributaries of the Ottawa River. The Saint-Maurice River is located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. The main tributaries of the Saint-Maurice River are: * Matawin River (Quebec), Matawin River, whose mouth is at Rivière Matawin (Hamlet), Matawin (Hamlet); * Vermillon River (La Tuque) which empties about 23 km, 14 miles (by water) upstream (north) of the Beaumont generating station in La Tuque, Quebec, La Tuque; * Manouane River (La Tuque) which empties about 115 km, 70 miles (by water) upstream (north) of La Tuque, Quebec, La Tuque; * La Trenche River (La Tuque) which empties near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 archipelago were named in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver in honour of the Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas (1742–1811), Treasurer of the Navy, 1783–1801, who was granted the title of Viscount Melville in 1802 and also named ''Baron Dunira''. The Dundas islands were originally perceived by Vancouver to be one island which he named Dundas's Island. Among the smaller islands of the group are Baron Island, Dunira Island, Melville Island and other small islands and islets on the west side of Chatham Sound between Brown and Caamaño Passages. Dundas Island in Nunavut, northern Canada is also named after Dundas. Dundas' son, Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville is the namesake of Melville Island in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, and also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 residents. Only Quadra Island and Cortes Island have ferry service. The remainder are served by private boat or float plane. Geography The area's complex geography can make it difficult to determine when travelling by boat whether a sighted coastline belongs to the mainland, Vancouver Island, or one of the Discovery Islands. Major islands The Discovery Islands are all located within the Strathcona Regional District, except for a few of the southernmost, such as Hernando Island and Savary Island, which are in the qathet Regional District. The larger islands within the Discovery Islands are: ; Strathcona Regional District * Cortes Island (west: Subtle Islands) * Hardwicke Island (north: Poyntz, Seymour, Murray; west: Yorke; sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 now Scotland. Caledon is primarily rural with a number of Hamlet (place), hamlets and small villages, but also contains the larger community of Bolton, Ontario, Bolton (population 26,795) in its southeastern quadrant, adjacent to York Region. Some spillover urbanization also occurs in the south bordering the City of Brampton. Caledon is the northernmost of three municipalities of Peel Region. The town is northwest of Brampton. According to Statistics Canada the land area is and, according to the city the area is , which makes Caledon the largest municipality by area in the Greater Toronto Area. History By 1869, Belfountain was a village with a population of 100 in the Caledon Township, Ontario, Township of Caledon, Peel County, Ontario, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Strait to the east of Cape John. The nearest village is River John, some 5 km south, and it is there that postal, telephone and fire services are located. The nearest town is Pictou some 29 km to the east. There is a small harbour at Skinners Cove, comprising short breakwaters and wharves either side of a narrow channel. It is used mainly by the fishing industry and a few recreational boats. Recent improvements to the harbour were funded by the Government of Canada The Government of Canada (), formally His Majesty's Government (), is the body responsible for the federation, federal administration of Canada. The term ''Government of Canada'' refers specifically to the executive, which includes Minister of t .... References Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
