Islles Belcher

Les **islles Belcher** son un archipiélagu alcontráu na badea de Hudson en Canadá, pertenecen al territoriu de Nunavut.  L'archipiélagu cunta con unes 1500 islles y castros, siendo la mayor la islla Flaherty (1 585 km²), la única  islla habitada que ta na mariña norte, Sanikiluaq, l'aldega más austral de Nunavut. Otres islles principales son les islles Kugong, Moore, Tukarak, Innetallong, Wiegand, Split, Snape y Mavor. 

Nun s'esquizó nin cartografió hasta 1915. Grandes depósitos de mineral de fierro alcontrárpnse nes islles Belcher y la vecina Nastapoka. La escasa población abastez del puestu comercial de Sanikiluaq (744 habitantes [2006]; 812 [2011]), que cunta con una pista d'aterrizaxe.

La xeoloxía de les islles Belcher pertenez al Proterozoico. Les roques sedimentaries clásticas, según les ígnees y unidaes carbonatadas espuestes, rexistren dislocaciones y subsidencias del Cratón Superior. Hai dos grandes series volcániques na islles Belcher, la Eskimo y, superpuesta , la serie de Flaherty.

L'archipiélagu lleva el so nome en reconocencia a los méritos del marín inglés y esplorador del árticu , sir Edward Belcher (1799-1877), anque nunca saleó peles sos agües.

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## Bibliografía

* Bell, Richard T. Report on Soapstone in the Belcher Islands, N.W.T. St. Catharines, Ont: Dept. of Geological Sciences, Brock University, 1973.
* Caseburg, Deborah Nancy. Religious Practice and Ceremonial Clothing on the Belcher Islands, Northwest Territories. Ottawa: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1994. ISBN 0-315-88029-5
* Flaherty, Robert J. *The Belcher Islands of Hudson Bay Their Discovery and Exploration*. Zug, Switzerland: Inter Documentation Co, 1960s.
* Fleming, Brian, and Miriam McDonald. A Nest Census and the Economic Potential of the Hudson Bay Eider in the South Belcher Islands, N.W.T. Sanikiluaq, N.W.T.: Brian Fleming and Miriam McDonald, Community Economic Planners, 1987.
* Guemple, D. Llee . *Kinship Reckoning Among the Belcher Island Eskimo*. Chicago : Dept. of Photoduplication, University of Chicago Library, 1966.
* Hydro-Québec, and Environmental Committee of Sanikiluaq. *Community Consultation in Sanikiluaq Among the Belcher Island Inuit on the Proposed Great Whale Project*. Sanikiluaq, N.W.T.: Environmental Committee, Municipality of Sanikiluaq, 1994.
* Jonkel, Charres J. *The Present Status of the Polar Bear in the James Bay and Belcher Islands Area*. Ottawa: Canadian Wildlife Service, 1976.
* Manning, T. H. Birds and Mammals of the Belcher, Sleeper, Ottawa and King George Islands, and Northwest Territories. Ottawa: Canadian Wildlife Service, 1976.
* Oakes, Jill Y. *Utilization of Eider Down by Ungava Inuit on the Belcher Islands*. [Ottawa, Ont.]: Canadian Home Economics Journal, 1991.
* Richards, Horace Gardiner. *Pleistocene Fossils from the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay*. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, v. 23, article 3. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum], 1940.
* Twomey, Arthur C., and Nigel Herrick. Needle to the North, The Story of an Expedition to Ungava and the Belcher Islands. Houghton Mifflin, 1942.
* Robert H Pearson, The Belcher Island Murders: White Man’s Justice in the Canadian Arctic, unpublished essay, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 1996. For a copy of the work, please contact rhp96 at yahoo dot com.


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