Canada High Sea

Off the Labrador coast, cold water and drifting ice move south from the Arctic into the Labrador Sea. The current carries ice floes and icebergs from Baffin Bay and Davis Strait past the bays and islands of Labrador. These waters were travelled by Inuit hunters and traders as well as European ships. By the eighteenth century, whalers returning from Greenland sometimes crossed to Labrador to exchange goods with Inuit communities along the coast.