translate English to French: Based on aerial population surveys summarized by Gunn and Dragon (2002), however, the Melville Island local population showed an overall steady decline of 7.4% per year between 1961 and 1997
Les recensements aériens résumés par Gunn et Dragon (2002) montrent cependant que la population locale de l’île Melville a connu un déclin global régulier de 7,4 p.