Hudson Bay High Sea

Hudson Bay spreads across a vast, shallow basin between the Canadian mainland and the islands of the Arctic. Ice covers much of its surface through the long winter. Beluga whales spend that season in Hudson Strait and enter the bay in summer, following routes along its shores that Inuit hunters have long known. On the western coast, Inuit also met the small Hudson's Bay Company vessels sent north from Churchill to exchange goods and furs during the open-water season.