Lake Minto

The Inuit call this great lake Qasigialik, the place of spotted seals. It stretches through a valley enclosed by rows of hills in the western interior of the Ungava peninsula. From its waters flows Kuugaaluk, the Great River, which crosses the tundra eastwards towards Ungava Bay. Along its banks grow sparse Arctic willows and birches, and the river offers a passage from the lake across a broad expanse of northern country.