Sutton Island (Nunavut)
Sutton Island is located in northern Canada's territory of Nunavut. It is situated in the Dolphin and Union Strait immediately next to Liston Island. Rymer Point and Simpson Bay, on Victoria Island's Wollaston Peninsula are to the northeast. Bernard Harbour, on the mainland, is to the southwest, as is Chantrey Island.
The island is the ancestral home of several Inuit including the Puiplirmiut (or Puiblirmiut) and Noahonirmiut, Copper Inuit subgroups.
References
- ^ "Sutton Island". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
- ^ "Liston Island". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
- ^ Stefansson, Vilhjalmur (1914). The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum: Preliminary Ethnological Report. New York: The Trustees of the American Museum. pp. 16, 31. OCLC 13626409.
- ^ Stefansson, V. (1914-12-30). "Prehistoric and Present Commerce among the Arctic Coast Eskimo". Geological Survey Museum Bulletin. 6: 14.
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