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Female Doll made of caribou skin, Nunatsiarmiut (Baffin Island Inuit), c.1914 (lemm.ee)
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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Really amazing work. This post led me to the Wikipedia page for the Baffin Island and I will share some interesting facts I learned:

  • Baffin Island is the 5th largest island in the world

  • About 3/4 of its population is indigenous

  • It has a population is about 13,000 which is over half of the Arctic Archipelago as a whole

  • If it were a country, it would tie with Greenland for the lowest population density at .03/km².

  • Unrelated: There's a small island in Ireland called Boffin Island in English with a population under 200. The Gaelic name, Inishbofin, means "Island of the White Cow"

God I love Wikipedia