Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut)

Melville Island

NASA satellite photograph of Melville Island
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Etymology	The Viscount Melville
Geography
Location	Canadian Arctic
Coordinates	75°30′02″N 111°30′09″W / 75.50056°N 111.50250°W / 75.50056; -111.50250 (Melville Island)[1]
Archipelago	Queen Elizabeth Islands
Adjacent to	Lancaster Sound Viscount Melville Sound
Area	42,149 km2 (16,274 sq mi)
Area rank	33rd
Length	341 km (211.9 mi)
Width	210–292 km (130–181 mi)
Highest elevation	762 m (2500 ft)
Administration
Canada
Territories	Northwest Territories, Nunavut
Regions	Qikiqtaaluk, Inuvik
Demographics
Population	0 (uninhabited) (2024)

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 km² (16,274 sq mi), 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 750 m (2,460 ft).

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.