Ungava Bay
| Ungava Bay Baie d'Ungava |
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 Satellite image of Ungava Bay in June with Akpatok Island |
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| Waters | Hudson Street | |
| Land mass | Labrador Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 59 ° 45 ′ N , 67 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| width | approx. 265 km | |
| surface | 33,000 km² | |
| Greatest water depth | 300 m | |
| Islands | Akpatok Island , Île Qikirtajuaq (Rivière à la Baleine) , Île Qikirtajuaq (Leaf Bay) , Tiercel Island , Îles Gyrfalcon , Ivik Island , Tikiraaluk Island | |
| Tributaries | Rivière Arnaud , Rivière aux Feuilles , Rivière Koksoak , Rivière à la Baleine , Rivière George | |
 Map of Ungava Bay |
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Ungava Bay ( French Baie d'Ungava ; Inuktitut : ᐅᖓᕙ ᑲᖏᖅᓗᒃ / ungava kangiqluk ) is a bay in the north of the Canadian Labrador Peninsula .
The bay and all the islands in it belong administratively to the Qikiqtaaluk region of the Nunavut territory , while its mainland coast belongs to the Nunavik region (administrative region of North du Quebec ) of the province of Quebec .
geography
The approximately 33,000 km² large bay borders the Ungava Peninsula in the west , in the north it opens into the Hudson Strait and there reaches a width of about 265 km. Ungava Bay is a comparatively shallow body of water, the greatest depth is reached at around 300 m in the northeast. The bay is in the area of influence of the cold Labrador Current , so that the landscape around the bay is shaped by tundra and the bay is covered by pack ice in winter and spring .
Important tributaries into Ungava Bay are Rivière Arnaud , Rivière aux Feuilles , Rivière Koksoak , Rivière à la Baleine and Rivière George . The largest island in the bay is Akpatok Island in the northwest.
In the southwest of Ungava Bay - next to the Bay of Fundy - the possibly highest tidal range in the world is recorded.
colonization
On Pamiok Island in the northwest of Ungava Bay, stone remains of longhouse- like structures of over 44 meters in length can be detected. They are attributed to the Dorset culture .
Their longhouses could have been influenced by the Vikings. The construction of the (as yet unproven) roofing is a mystery, as lumber is only available about 200 kilometers further south. Farley Mowat thought it possible that Vikings wintered in the animal-rich region and used their upturned boats as weather protection on the stone foundations.
In 1602, George Weymouth's expedition also explored Ungava Bay. The Naskapi from the southern woodlands hunted caribou in the inland , while the Inuit mainly settled the coastal area and lived on marine animals. In the 19th century, the Hudson's Bay Company operated fur trading in what is now Kuujjuaq . French fur traders and settlers have lived in Kangirsuk since 1921, 13 kilometers from the west coast of Ungava Bay. The disappearance of the caribou and the decline of the fur trade in the crisis of the 1930s led to the impoverishment of the population.
Today there are again numerous Inuit settlements on the coast of Ungava Bay, of which Kuujjuaq is the most important 50 kilometers above the mouth of the Rivière Koksoak with over 2000 inhabitants. Hunting, fishing, looking for mussels and the partly cooperative-based production of clothing form the basis of life.
Web links
- Ungava Bay ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
Individual evidence
- ^ Natural Resources Canada
- ↑ Charles T. O'Reilly, Ron Solvason, and Christian Solomon: Resolving the World's largest tides ( Memento of January 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; English; 653 kB) (accessed October 4, 2010)
- ↑ Thomas E. Lee: Archaeological investigations of a longhouse ruin: Pamiok Island, Ungava Bay, 1972 , Quebec 1972, p. 325.
- ↑ Farley Mowat: The FarFarers. Toronto 1999.
- ↑ Tom Morantz: Relations on Ungava Bay: An Illustrated History of Inuit, Naskapi, and Eurocanadian Interaction, 1800-1970 . 2016, ISBN 978-2-921644-52-5