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Southampton Island (Inuktitut: ''Shugliaq'')〔Issenman, Betty. ''Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing''. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254〕 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.〔(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''. Southampton Island is one of the few Canadian areas, and the only area in Nunavut, that does not use daylight saving time. ==History== Historically speaking, Southampton Island is famous for its now-extinct inhabitants, the ''Sadlermiut'' (modern Inuktitut ''Sallirmiut'' "Inhabitants of ''Salliq''"), who were the last vestige of the Tuniit. The ''Tuniit'', a pre-Inuit culture, officially went ethnically and culturally extinct in 1902-03 when infectious disease killed all of the ''Sallirmiut'' in a matter of weeks. The island's first recorded visit by Europeans was in 1613 by Welsh explorer Thomas Button. At the beginning of the 20th century, the island was repopulated by Aivilingmiut from Repulse Bay and Chesterfield Inlet, influenced to do so by whaler Capt. George Comer and others. Baffin Islanders arrived 25 years later. John Ell, who as a young child travelled with his mother Shoofly on Comer's schooners, eventually became the most famous of Southampton Island's re-settled population. The Native Point archaeological site at the mouth of Native Bay is the largest Sadlermiut site on the island.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Southampton Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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