Sanikiluaq

Sanikiluaq ( ᓴᓂᑭᓗᐊᖅ ) is the southernmost settlement of Nunavut and part of Baffin region. It lies on the belonging to the Belcher Islands Flaherty Island in Hudson Bay, about 150 kilometers from the west coast of northern Quebec, and has about 850 inhabitants (90 % Inuit ).

Here, both people of the Dorset culture from about 500 BC to 1000 AD lived as well as members of the Thule Culture 1000-1800, immediate ancestors of the Inuit. The first Europeans Henry Hudson cruised in 1610, before the Belcher Islands, and then it took apparently until 1914 that Robert J. Flaherty, had known hibernate through his 1922 film shot Nanook of the North, in the area of Sanikiluaq.

The Hudson 's Bay Company in 1928 opened up a first trading post, which was operated sporadically until the 1950s. 1961 established the Canadian government, the first school in the southern part of Iceland Flaherty. In 1971 the settlement was officially founded in Sanikiluaq.

Accessible is Sanikiluaq with machines of the regional airline Air Inuit Ltd. ..