Explore Melrose, Newfoundland and Labrador with an interactive map featuring Street View, satellite and terrain views. Live weather, local news and location details for Melrose, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Place | Melrose |
| Type | Neighbourhood |
| Province / Territory | Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) |
| Location | |
| Country | Canada |
| Latitude | 48.480556 |
| Longitude | -53.072778 |
| Importance | Village / hamlet |
| CGN ID | AAOAY |
Melrose is a neighbourhood in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is classified as a village / hamlet. Melrose is located at 48.4806°N, 53.0728°W.
Melrose rests, a quiet settlement cradled by the rolling hills and the deep, reflective waters of Newfoundland’s interior. It lies 17.0 km south of Bonavista, NL (from Bonavista, NL: bearing 172°T), and is situated 4.0 km south of Catalina. The landscape here is a study in muted greens and earthy browns, where stunted spruce and fir cling tenaciously to rocky outcrops, their branches often bowed by the persistent coastal breeze. The air carries the clean, sharp scent of pine needles and damp earth, a fragrance that deepens with the twilight as the sky bleeds into hues of lavender and bruised plum. Small, irregular fields, stitched together by low stone walls, hint at the hard-won sustenance wrested from this land, while the nearby lakes, like scattered shards of polished obsidian, mirror the vast, ever-changing sky, their surfaces rippled by the wind’s unseen hand. The history of Melrose is inextricably bound to the cycles of the sea and the land, a narrative etched into the weathered clapboard of its homes and the resilient spirit of its people. For generations, the bounty of the ocean, though distant, shaped the lives and livelihoods of those who chose to settle here, with fishing and related trades forming the backbone of the local economy. Later, the discovery of minerals in the surrounding hills brought a different kind of industry, a brief flurry of activity that left its mark on the terrain and the collective memory. Today, while the echoes of those older ways still resonate, Melrose finds its rhythm in a blend of tourism, small-scale farming, and the quiet continuation of life, where the distinctive call of a loon across the water or the distant bleating of sheep become the prominent sounds of the day.
Loading news…
Loading news…
Loading news…
Explore Melrose, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, with interactive street, satellite and terrain maps, complete with integrated Google Street View imagery. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Visitors can also search Google alongside Wikipedia and editorial summaries for additional local information and context.
Location data for Melrose is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.
| Page generated | June 2026 |
| Location data | Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada |