Labrador Peninsula

Geography of Labrador Peninsula - Quebec-Labrador Peninsula
Killinik Island, Torngat Mountains National Park Reserve
ContinentNorth America
RegionEastern Canada
Area
 • Total1,400,000 km2 (540,000 sq mi)
 • Land88%
 • Water12%
Highest pointMount Caubvick
Lowest pointSea level
Longest riverLa Grande River
Largest lakeCaniapiscau Reservoir
ClimateLargely subarctic
TerrainFlat and rolling except in the Torngat, Otish and Laurentian mountain ranges.
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The Labrador Peninsula or Quebec-Labrador Peninsula,[1][2] is a large peninsula in eastern Canada. It is bounded by Hudson Bay to the west, the Hudson Strait to the north, the Labrador Sea to the east, Strait of Belle Isle and the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the southeast. The peninsula includes the region of Labrador,[3] which is part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the regions of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Côte-Nord, and Nord-du-Québec, which are in the province of Quebec. It has an area of 1,400,000 km2 (541,000 sq mi).

Typical landscape scenery of the interior of the Labrador Peninsula, taken near Schefferville, Quebec, in summer, 2021
  1. ^ François Trudel (2001). ""Indigenous people and the fur trade in the Quebec-Labrador peninsula"" (PDF). Les Presses de l’Université Laval (coll. “Historical Atlas of Quebec”). Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises (CIEQ). pp. 3 of 52. Retrieved 27 August 2024. The Peninsula of Quebec-Labrador, sometimes also called Ungava, Labrador, Ungava-Labrador or, politically, New Quebec and Labrador, is a vast territory of approximately one million square kilometers.
  2. ^ "Quebec Labrador Peninsula". Gouvernement of Quebec. Commission de Toponymy Quebec. 18 June 1993. Retrieved 23 August 2024. Over the years, many variations of the name have been used: Terraagricule (1558); Land of Labor (1575); Estotilandt (1597) or Estotilande (1656); Terra Cortereale (1597); New Britain (1656).
  3. ^ Fabien Caron (1965). "Albert Peter Low and the exploration of Quebec-Labrador" (PDF). Érudit (in English and French). Center for Nordic Studies, Laval University. p. 16. Retrieved 23 August 2024. ... he had the consuming curiosity of the born explorer which must always see the other side of the hill or the other end of the river.