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  Ungava Peninsula
The Ungava Peninsula is a large peninsula approximately 350 000 km
The name is of Inuktitut origin and may mean "towards the open water" in reference to the UNGAVA INUIT who were living at the mouth of the Rivière Arnaud, which flows into Ungava Bay.
The peninsula is rich in mineral wealth, mainly asbestos, nickel, copper, uranium and iron ores.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008207   (190 words)

  
 Labrador-Ungava — Infoplease.com
The western four fifths of the peninsula belongs to Nouveau Québec (Ungava) and Saguenay counties of
Geologically part of the Canadian Shield, the glaciated peninsula has many lakes and streams.
The region south of Ungava Bay, originally a possession of the Hudson's Bay Company, was made a part of the Northwest Territories in 1869, and later (1895) became a separate district.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0828494.html   (396 words)

  
 A Breeding Pair Survey Of Canada Geese In Northern Quebec
The estimated number of breeding pairs on the Ungava Peninsula (regions 1,2, and 3) in 2003 (156,937 pairs) was similar to the 2002 estimate of 164,840 pairs (P = 0.653) (Table 2, Figure 2).
From 1993-2000, the estimated density of breeding pairs was similar in the Hudson and Ungava Bay coastal zones (Figure 3), although density along Hudson Bay tended to be slightly higher.
The percentage of indicated pairs observed as singles was similar in the coastal zones along Ungava Bay (57%) and Hudson Bay (55%) in 2003 (Figure 4).
www.dnr.state.md.us /wildlife/bpsurvey2003.html   (0 words)

  
 NRS - e-newsletter with boating tips, paddling gear offers, and new river supplies
This fall I was able to convince Eric Nemitz, also from Dublin, New Hampshire, to complete the two-person team that would tackle the ambitious route developed to explore one of the most remote and least traveled portions of the world.
Our two-man team’s objective is to circumnavigate the Ungava Peninsula of northern Quebec by canoe.
Traditionally, travel in Ungava was by canoe and involved crossing watersheds and portaging.
www.nrsweb.com /services/newsletter/2006/rnstory_ungava_may06b.asp   (1155 words)

  
 University of Helsinki - Department of Geography - Matti Seppälä
Deeply dissected tundra polygons on a glacio-fluvial outwash plain, Northern Ungava Peninsula, Québec.
Piping causing thermokarst in permafrost, Ungava Peninsula, Quebec, Canada.
Glacial moraine and outwash evidence for stable phases during the retreat of the Laurentide ice sheet in northern Ungava.
www.helsinki.fi /geography/Matti_Seppala_eng.html   (2735 words)

  
 Thunder Bay Museum: The Photos of Robert J. Flaherty
These portraits of Indians and Inuit of the Arctic and of their houses, animals, and lifestyle were scanned from original prints in the collection of the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society.
Those that can be identified were shot during Flaherty's early visits to Fort George, Baffin Island, the Ungava Peninsula and Fort Chimo in the 1910s.
Portrait of a man identified as Panthary, a Naskapi from Fort Chimo, Ungava Peninsula.
www.thunderbaymuseum.com /flaherty_order.htm   (478 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ungava
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lying north of the Province of Quebec, detached (1876) from the Great Labrador peninsula.
Ungava Bay, on the north-east and east by Labrador proper, on the south by the Province of Quebec, on the west by Hudson and James' Bays.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15127a.htm   (206 words)

  
  Ungava - Qwika
District of Ungava District of Ungava, 1898-1912 The District of Ungava was a regional administrative district of Canada...
The Ungava Collared Lemming or Labrador Collared Lemming, Dicrostonyx...
the strait of Hudson and Bay of Ungava in north, Labrador in the North-West...
www.qwika.com /find/Ungava   (403 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nunavik   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Ungava Peninsula and Ungava Bay are in Nunavik, which forms the northern two-thirds of the region of Nord-du-Québec.
The Ungava Peninsula in northernmost Quebec is bounded by Hudson Bay to the west, Hudson Strait to the north, and Ungava Bay to the east.
Nunavik is separated from Nunavut Territory by Hudson Bay to the west and Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay to the north.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nunavik   (864 words)

  
 Ungava - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Ungava   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Peninsular region in northern Québec and Labrador, Canada, bordered to the north by Hudson Strait, to the east by Ungava Bay and the Labrador Sea, to the south by the Eastmain River, and to the west by James Bay and Hudson Bay; area 911,110 sq km/351,780 sq mi.
The peninsula is part of the Canadian Shield, and is barren and sparsely populated; low vegetation increases towards the south.
It was made a district of the Northwest Territories in 1895, and passed to Québec in 1912.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Ungava   (292 words)

  
 Ungava   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It is bounded on the west by Hudson's Straits, comprising Ungava Bay, on the north-east and east by Labrador proper, on the south by the Province of Quebec, on the west by Hudson and James' Bays.
The Moravian Brothers began proselytizing the Esquimaux in 1770.
Ungava now depends spiritually on the Vicariate Apostolic of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/u/ungava.html   (234 words)

  
 Ungava - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ungava Minerals Corp.'s Subsidiary Files Motion in Quebec to Commence Litigation.
Ungava Minerals Corp. Announces Election of Directors and Appointment of a New President.
Ungava Minerals Corp. Announces the Appointment of a New Director and Treasurer.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-Ungava.html   (302 words)

  
 Quebec (province) - ninemsn Encarta
The sparsely inhabited Ungava Peninsula is part of the Canadian Shield; in the north it is treeless, but vegetation increases towards the south.
Mount Jacques-Cartier (1,268 m/4,160 ft), on the Gaspé Peninsula, is the highest point in the Appalachian Region.
Between the Canadian Shield and the Appalachian Region and mostly straddling the St Lawrence River is the narrow St Lawrence Lowland.
au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551789/Quebec_(province).html   (701 words)

  
 Ungava peninsula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/ungava_peninsula   (123 words)

  
 Waterfowl - Canada Goose breeding in Northern Québec
Between late July and mid-August, a total of 7603 Canada Geese (adults and juveniles) were banded along the coastal lowlands of Ungava Bay (2611 geese) and Hudson Bay (4992 geese).
The ratio for Hudson Bay in 2006 was higher than the long-term average (1.64) whereas the ratio for Ungava Bay was lower than the long-term average (1.42).
The juvenile:adult ratio of Canada Geese banded on the Ungava Peninsula, Québec, 1997-2006.
www.qc.ec.gc.ca /faune/sauvagine/html/can_goose_breeding.html   (260 words)

  
 Ungava Peninsula in TutorGig Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The 'Ungava Peninsula' of Nunavik, Québec, Canada, is bounded by Hudson Bay to the west, Hudson Strait to the north, and Ungava Bay to the east.
The Ungava Peninsula is part of the Labrador Peninsula and covers about 252,000 km².
The 10,000 inhabitants of the peninsula (90% Inuit), live in 12 villages spread along the coast.
www.tutorgig.com /ed/Ungava_Peninsula   (271 words)

  
 Standora Island History and Location   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Whale River lies within the subarctic wilderness of the Ungava Peninsula bounded by ocean waters of Hudson Bay to the west, Ungava Bay and the Hudson Strait to the north, and the north Atlantic Ocean along the Labrador coast to the east (refer to the Location Map).
The vast land is strewn with a multitude of deep blue lakes and rapidly flowing streams and rivers, intertwined with green stunted spruce forests mixed with yellow-green caribou moss, and broken by expansive gray bedrock ridges.
The nearest inhabitants are native Canadians in the Eskimo village of Kuujjuaq, itself an isolated settlement in the tundra of the Koaksoak River estuary, 90 miles northwest of camp.
www.whaleriver.com /history.asp   (733 words)

  
 Communication and Information Sector's Photobank - Group at Wolstenholme, NW point of Ungava Peninsula, Quebec, 1937
Group at Wolstenholme, NW point of Ungava Peninsula, Quebec, 1937
Raw footage shot by employees in different locations in the 1930s provides images of the HBC's posts and ships, as well as the people, geography and wildlife of the North.
Keywords: Group at Wolstenholme, NW point of Ungava Peninsula, Quebec, 1937
portal.unesco.org /ci/photos/showphoto.php/photo/1854/si/Information   (101 words)

  
 Northern Canada Outdoor Adventure, Fishing lodge, Eco tours, wilderness Expeditions
Welcome to Lake Bérard, better known among anglers as Finger Lake.
This body of water, the last in a chain of lakes stretching eastward out of the Ungava Peninsula toward the spectacular, expansive bay of the same name.
According to biologists, Lake Bérard is home to a population of giant Arctic char, among the largest in all of Canada.
www.fingerlakelodge.com /en   (179 words)

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