Nunavut (electoral district) Nunavut (electoral district) Nunavut is a federal electoral district in Nunavut, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979. Before 1997, it was known as Nunatsiaq, and was one of two electoral districts in Northwest Territories. The riding covers the entire territory of Nunavut. It is the largest federal electoral district by land area in Canada, and, since the abolition of the Division of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, the largest electoral district represented by a single legislator in the world. Ethnic groups: 86.3% Aboriginal, 12.1% White <br> Languages: 66.8% Inuktitut, 29.1% English, 1.4% French<br>
Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut) deposits. The island was believed to have deposits of coal and oil shale since the first half of the 20th century. The first Canadian Arctic island exploratory well was spudded in 1961 at Winter Harbour. It drilled Lower Paleozoic strata to a total depth of . In the 1970s, the northern portion of the island on the east side of the Sabine Peninsula proved to contain a major gas field, known as Drake Point. The lease was owned by Panarctic Oils, a joint operation with the Canadian Government. Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut) Melville Island is an uninhabited island