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Melville (One of the Parry Islands)

one of the Parry Islands, a sound, and a peninsula in the polar regions ions of North America. The island is crossed by lat. 75° N. and long. 110° W., and is separated on the W. by Fitzwilliam Strait from Prince Patrick Island; greatest length, 200 miles; greatest breadth, 130 miles. In 1819 Parry, who gave the island its name, passed the winter here with his crews. The sound, about 250 miles long by 200 broad, extends S. E. of the island, and communicates with the Arctic Ocean on the W. by Banks Strait, and with Baffin Bay on the E. by Barrow Strait and Lancaster Sound. The peninsula projects from the continent at its N. E. corner, and has on the N. the Fury Fury and Hecla Strait, and on the E. Fox Channel. It is 250 miles in length by about 100 in average breadth.