Seal Lake

Far inland from Hudson Bay, Seal Lake is home to an unusual population of harbour seals that lives in fresh water. The animals feed on fish in a chain of lakes connected with the Nastapoka River. Cree people know the seal as achikunipi, while Inuit hunters have also encountered it in these waters. In 1818 the Hudson's Bay Company traveller George Atkinson recorded seals in the neighbouring upper lake, among the earliest written descriptions of them.