George Plateau

The plateau around the George River forms part of the vast interior of the Labrador Peninsula. Caribou travel between the wooded wintering grounds and the tundra, where they give birth in spring. Innu hunters followed the animals through the river basin, using routes that linked the interior with the coast. The river acquired its English name in 1811, when two Moravian missionaries named it for King George III; its Indigenous names include the Naskapi Mushuau Shipu, the treeless river.