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Ottawa Islands
The Ottawa Islands (Inuit: ''Arviliit'')〔Issenman, Betty. ''Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing''. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254〕 are a group of uninhabited islands situated in the eastern edge of Canada's Hudson Bay. The group comprises 24 small islands, located at approximately 60N 80W.〔(Columbia Gazetteer of North America ), accessed May 30, 2007〕 The main islands include Booth Island, Bronson Island, Eddy Island, Gilmour Island, J. Gordon Island, Pattee Island, and Perley Island. The highest point is on Gilmour Island, which rises to over .〔 Located a short distance off the northwest coast of Quebec's Ungava Peninsula, they, like the other coastal islands in Hudson Bay, were historically part of the Northwest Territories, and became part of the territory of Nunavut upon its creation in 1999.〔(Standard Geographical Classification Volume II: Reference Maps ) (SGC 2006). Online database: Map Series: Census Division - Census Subdivision. Geography: 23. Nunavut (9.9 MB). Map "Nunavut". Statistics Canada, Ottawa, 2007. Accessed 05-11-2007. Note: This information is based on the analysis of primary information provided within the map and is supported by secondary information in reference #2 (NRCAN). Reference #2 clearly states that the location of Ottawa Islands is within Nunavut. By cross referencing with NRCAN, it is possible to conclude that Ottawa Islands is not only part of Nunavut but of Census Division #4 or Baffin Region, Nunavut.〕〔(Toparama - Topographic Maps from Natural Resources Canada )〕
==Geography==
The Ottawa Islands are situated on the barren and rocky east coast of Hudson Bay.〔"Hudson Bay." The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Columbia University Press., 2003. (Answers.com 26 Jan. 2007 ). Accessed 01-26-2007.〕 By 1610 Hudson Bay had been explored and named by Henry Hudson in his quest for a Northwest Passage.〔 It wasn't until 1631 when Luke Foxe (or Fox) on a voyage from "Vltimum Vale" (Cape Henrietta Maria), near 57° 40', indicated that "Mr. Hudson calls those islands by the name of 'Lancaster's Iles.' "〔Miller Christy, ed., "The Voyage of Capt. Luke Fox of Hull and Capt. Thomas James of Bristol, in search of North-west Passage, 1631-2", (Hakluyt Soc., Vols. 88, 89, 1894), p.368. Taken from; Manning, T.H., "Explorations on the East Coast of Hudson Bay". ''The Geographical Journal'', Vol. 109, No. 1/3 (Jan. - Mar., 1947), pp. 58-75, , (Republished ) by JSTOR, Accessed 01-26-2007.〕 According to historian T.H. Manning, there is no other record of Henry Hudson naming islands in that region.〔Manning, T.H., "Explorations on the East Coast of Hudson Bay". ''The Geographical Journal'', Vol. 109, No. 1/3 (Jan. - Mar., 1947), pp. 58-75, , (Republished ) by JSTOR, Accessed 01-26-2007.〕 A little further north, near 58° 5', Capt. Foxe says "Wee came by a small Iland at clocke one, the highest I haue seene since I came from Brook Cobham; the deep 70 fathome. I named the ''Ile Sleepe''."〔Miller Christy, op. cit. p.369. Taken from; Manning, T.H., op. cit.〕 Foxe named the islands just north of Lancaster Isle, "Ile Sleepe". According to Manning, the name, having eventually changed to "Sleeper Island" or "The Sleepers", could be used "for the islands between and including Lancaster and Ottawa Islands."〔
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