Ukusikalik

Ukusikalik lies on the northern Labrador coast around Davis Inlet, a fjord named after the English explorer John Davis, who charted the region in 1587 while searching for the Northwest Passage. Ukasiksalik Island, in the inlet, has a soapstone quarry, known as the Freestone Harbour quarry, at its northeastern end. Further south along the coast, Inuit people gathered at Agvituk, meaning "place of the whales", where the Moravian missionaries arrived in 1782 and renamed the settlement Hopedale. The Mushuau Innu lived in the inlet and hunted both inland and along the shore.