Navchak

Nachvak Fiord reaches deep into the Torngat Mountains, between walls of rock rising high above its cold waters. Inuit hunters found bowhead whales in the fjord, and a village on its northern shore held a succession of sod houses from the late fifteenth century into the early eighteenth. The country was known to Moravian missionaries seeking contact with Inuit farther north, though attempts to explore beyond Nachvak in 1774 and 1775 were unsuccessful.