Nuvujen Island

Island in Nunavut, Canada
65°27′N 66°50′W / 65.450°N 66.833°W / 65.450; -66.833ArchipelagoArctic ArchipelagoAdministration
Canada
NunavutNunavutRegionQikiqtaalukDemographicsPopulationUninhabited

Nuvujen Island is an uninhabited Baffin Island offshore island located in the Arctic Archipelago (the capes)[1] in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region. It lies on the western shore of Cumberland Sound, between Brown Inlet to the northwest and Robert Peel Inlet to the southeast. Aupaluktut Island lies to its south.

History

In the mid 19th century, approximately 100 Inuit lived on the island according to the journal kept by Mrs. Margaret Penny while she voyaged with her husband, Captain William Penny, aboard the whaler Lady Franklin in this region in 1857/58.[2] The island became an established whaling base at the time.[3] According to Hodge, the Talirpingmiut population dropped to 26 by 1883.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Hodge, Frederick Webb (2006). Handbook of American Indians V2: North of Mexico Part One. Kessinger Publishing. p. 100. ISBN 1-4286-4557-8.
  2. ^ Ross, William Gillies; Penny, Margaret; Penny, William (1997). This Distant and Unsurveyed Country: A Woman's Winter at Baffin Island, 1857-1858. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 180. ISBN 0-7735-1674-3.
  3. ^ Ross, pp. 67, 214

External links

  • Nuvujen Island in the Atlas of Canada - Toporama; Natural Resources Canada
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Islands of the Qikiqtaaluk Region
 Belcher IslandsIslands of Cumberland SoundIslands of Davis StraitIslands of Foxe BasinIslands of Frobisher BayIslands of the Gulf of BoothiaIslands of Hudson BayIslands of Hudson StraitIslands of James Bay
Islands of the Labrador SeaQueen Elizabeth Islands
Ellesmere Island
Parry Islands
Sverdrup Islands
Islands in italics are inhabited. See also Islands of the Kitikmeot Region, Islands of the Kivalliq Region
See also Islands of the Kitikmeot Region, Islands of the Kivalliq Region.


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