Melkøya (Norwegian) or Muolkkut (Northern Sami)[1] is an island in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

[2] The industrial island is the endpoint of the undersea pipeline that transports natural gas from the Snøhvit natural gas fields in the Barents Sea.

The gas goes through the 168-kilometre (104 mi) long pipeline to the processing plant Hammerfest LNG on Melkøya where 18 million cubic meters per day is converted into liquefied natural gas.

In 2001 and 2002, major archaeological investigations on Melkøya were undertaken before Statoil's development of the island began.

On 21 August 2007, the gas from the Snøhvit field began flowing to Melkøya.