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Southampton Island
Southampton Island
(
Inuktitut
:
Shugliaq
) is a large island at the entrance to
Hudson Bay
at
Foxe Basin
. One of the larger members of the
Canadian Arctic Archipelago
, Southampton Island is part of the
Kivalliq Region
in
Nunavut
,
Canada
. The area of the island is stated as 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
(pop. 834,
Canada 2011 Census
), called in Inuit
Salliq
.
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