Coats Island
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| Waters | Hudson Bay |
| Archipelago | Canadian Arctic Archipelago |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 35 ′ N , 82 ° 45 ′ W |
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| length | 130 km |
| width | 65 km |
| surface | 5 498 km² |
| Highest elevation | 215 m |
| Residents | uninhabited |
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Coats Island ( Inuktitut : Akpatordjuark ) is an uninhabited island in the Canadian Arctic archipelago . The island is located in the far north of Hudson Bay , between Southampton and Mansel Island . The 130 km long and 5,498 km² island belongs politically to the Canadian territory of Nunavut and ranks 24th among the largest islands in Canada.
The island is named after a captain who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company , William Coats, who visited the island regularly between 1727 and 1751.
Coats Island is considered to be one of the last settlement areas of the Sallirmiut , which died out around 1902 and possibly the last members of the Dorset culture .
The relatively flat island - the highest point near Cape Pembroke, the northeastern tip of the island, only reaches 215 m - has been an important protected area for caribou ( Rangifer tarandus ) since 1920 . From here caribou were relocated to Southampton Island , where the populations had previously been wiped out. An area of 2,118.6 km² in the northeast of the island is designated by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (NU005). On the cliff about 5 km west of Cape Pembroke there are two breeding colonies of the thick-billed mum with an estimated 30,000 pairs in 1990. Black guillemots , peregrine falcons and ice gulls nest in the immediate vicinity . King eider ducks , swallow gulls , Canada geese , sandpipers and gray-breasted sandpipers breed in the lowlands .
Web links
- Coats Island in The Canadian Encyclopedia (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Atlas of Canada - Sea Islands ( Memento from October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ a b Coats Island / Cape Pembroke on IBA Canada (English)