North Aulatsivik Island

North Aulatsivik Island lies off the mountainous coast of northern Labrador. Eclipse Channel separates its southern shore from the mainland, where a river descends through rapids and waterfalls to the sea. Inuit families travelled and hunted among the islands and fjords of this coast. During the eighteenth century, Moravian missionaries based farther south sought to visit Inuit communities in the far north, although ice and difficult sailing limited their early attempts beyond Nachvak.