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Southampton Island is a large island located in Nunavut, Canada's northernmost territory, situated in Hudson Bay. It is significant as a remote Arctic region that is home to Inuit communities and important Arctic wildlife, and plays a role in Canada's northern geography and sovereignty.
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- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Nunavut
- Continent
- North America
- Capital
- Coral Harbour
- Population
- 834
- Area
- 41214
- Body of water
- Hudson Bay
- Location
- Hudson Bay
- Image
- Wfm southampton island.jpg
- Width
- 252
- Length
- 355
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- Southampton Island
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1613-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Southampton Island (Inuktitut: Salliq, or Shugliaq is a large island at the entrance to Hudson Bay at Foxe Basin. One of the larger members of the Arctic Archipelago, Southampton Island is part of the Kivalliq Region in Nunavut, Canada. The area of the island is stated as 41,214 km (15,913 sq mi) by Statistics Canada. It is the 34th largest island in the world and Canada's ninth largest island. The only settlement on Southampton Island is Coral Harbour (population 1,035, 2021 Canadian census), called Salliq in Inuktitut.
Southampton Island is one of the few Canadian areas, and the only area in Nunavut, that does not use daylight saving time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Southampton Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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