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Land use of the Copper Inuit
Aerial view of western Victoria Island and Holman
January 1987
Photograph by Rick Riewe
Copper Inuit
Copper Inuit, the westernmost Canadian Inuit, reside mainly in the centralized communities of Kuluktuk (formerly Coppermine), Cambridge Bay and Holman. Several families live in outpost camps along Coronation Gulf, Bathurst Inlet, Contwoyto Lake and on Victoria Island.
The area is largely tundra but there are forested areas on the south and southwestern margins along the Coppermine River and Great Bear Lake. Rocky hills and outcrops, tundra ponds, large lakes and rivers dominate the landscape. The land animals that sustain the Copper Inuit include caribou, wolf, moose, musk ox, and arctic hare, while the fresh and salt water provides many types fish, and seal.
