 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{{cite web | first=jean l. | last=briggs |author2=j. garth taylor | publisher=historica foundation of canada | title=the canadian encyclopedia: sadlermiut inuit| url =http://www.encyclopediecanadienne.ca/index.cfm?pgnm=tce&params=a1arta0007041|
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