Coral Harbour

Coral Harbour, Nunavut, Kivalliq region on the southern coast of Southampton Island at the northern edge of Hudson Bay. The settlement bears the Inuktitut name Salliq, " large flat island off the mainland ", and has about 850 inhabitants ( 94% Inuit ). The name Coral Harbour points out that this coral grew in times of warmer climate, whose fossils are found today.

As the first Europeans the English researcher Thomas Button came in 1604 on the southern coast of Southampton Island. 1824 was at Cape Pembroke before situated in the south Coats Iceland Captain George Francis Lyon with " HMS Griper " at anchor.

In the second half of the 19th century European and American whalers came to the rich fishing grounds off the island. They found a very isolated and shy group of people who Sallirmiut ("People of Salliq " ), which are regarded as possible descendants of Eskimos of the Dorset culture. In 1902, the Scottish whaling ship "Active" landed, it brought the other hand, not charmed Sallirmiut a virulent gastrointestinal infection, at the most died. 64 km southeast of the settlement Coral Harbour is on " Native Point" to visit another camp region of Sallirmiut ( with remnants of " Qarmait " Erdsodenhäusern ) - called Alijivik, also called " Lost City of the North".

As in 1924, the Hudson's Bay Company moved its original trading post on the upstream Coats Iceland at the site of today's Coral Harbour, attracted many Inuit ( " Aivilingmiut " ) from the mainland camps of the Kivalliq region here. In order to have sufficient hunters and trappers, the Hudson 's Bay Company also spoke out on Baffin Island and northern Quebec Inuit another ( " Uqqumiut " ) and brought them with her transport ship " Nascopie " to Southampton Island. 1926 founded the Oblate missionaries, Father Emmanuel Duplain and brother Prime Girard a mission station; at that time there were about 220 Inuit here. In 1950, a school, an infirmary in 1963.

Accessible Coral Harbour with regional airlines from Rankin Inlet.