Flaherty Island

Flaherty Island
	Oblique aerial view of Flaherty Island
Waters	Hudson Bay
Archipelago	Belcher Islands
Geographical location	56 ° 14 ′ N , 79 ° 17 ′ W Coordinates: 56 ° 14 ′ N , 79 ° 17 ′ W
length	108 km
width	38 km
surface	1 585 km²
Highest elevation	several elevations over ; 100 m
Residents	744 (2006) ; <1 inh / km²
main place	Sanikiluaq
	Satellite image of the Belcher Islands, Flaherty Island in the center

Flaherty Island is the main Belcher Islands in the southeastern part of Hudson Bay . Politically, it belongs to the Qikiqtaaluk region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut . Flaherty Island has an area of 1,585 km².

The island reaches heights of more than 100 meters in several places in the northeast. The small Inuit community of Sanikiluaq is located on the north coast of Flaherty Island and is the southernmost town in Nunavut.

Flaherty Island is named in honor of the anthropologist and documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty , who explored the Belcher Islands in search of iron ore from 1913 to 1914 .

Individual evidence

^ The Atlas of Canada - Sea Islands. ( Memento from October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
^ The Atlas of Canada - Toporama. ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (scale 1: 600,000)
^ Robert J. Christopher, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, Robert Joseph Flaherty: Robert and Frances Flaherty. A Documentary Life, 1883-1922 . McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-7735-2876-8 , pp. 280 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[1] The Atlas of Canada - Sea Islands. ( Memento from October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

[2] The Atlas of Canada - Toporama. ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (scale 1: 600,000)

[3] Robert J. Christopher, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, Robert Joseph Flaherty: Robert and Frances Flaherty. A Documentary Life, 1883-1922 . McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-7735-2876-8 , pp. 280 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).