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Southampton Island is a large island at the entrance to and Canada's 9th Largest Island . The only settlement on Southampton Island is Coral Harbour (pop. 721), called in Inuit ''Salliq''. East Bay Bird Sanctuary and Harry Gibbons Bird Sanctuary are located on the island and are important breeding sites for the Lesser Snow Goose (''Anser caerulescens caerulescens''). It is one of the few Canadian areas and the only area in Nunavut that does not use Daylight-saving Time . 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 when an Western illness wiped out the ''Sallirmiut'' in a matter of weeks. |
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