Canada High Sea

These waters lie east of the northern Labrador coast, where the Labrador Current carries ice and cold water southwards. To the west, islands guard the entrances to long fjords used by Inuit hunters and travellers. During the eighteenth century, European whalers and traders brought manufactured goods to exchange for sealskins and baleen. Moravian missionaries later established stations at Nain and Okak, joining the many voyages along this often ice-bound coast.