Labrador Sea

The Labrador Sea fills the space between Greenland and the Labrador coast, opening northward through Davis Strait into Baffin Bay. Cold currents carry drifting ice and icebergs south along its western edge, while winter brings broad fields of sea ice. Inuit hunted along its shores and traded with visiting Europeans. By the eighteenth century, whalers returning from Greenland sometimes crossed to Labrador to obtain sealskins and baleen from Inuit communities.