Canada High Sea

East of Labrador, the open sea stretches towards Greenland and the North Atlantic. Cold water flows south along the Labrador shelf, carrying icebergs that have travelled from glaciers on Greenland's western coast. Inuit along the Labrador shore hunted marine animals and exchanged their products with visitors. By the early eighteenth century, some whalers sailing home from Greenland crossed these waters to trade with them, seeking sealskins and baleen for European markets.