Labrador Peninsula, Canada

Labrador Peninsula is a large peninsula in eastern Canada. It is bounded by the Hudson Bay to the west, the Hudson Strait to the north, the Labrador Sea to the east, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the south-east. The peninsula includes the region of Labrador (also called the Coast of Labrador), part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and the regions of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Côte-Nord, and Nord-du-Québec, which are in the province of Quebec. Image File history File links Labrador-Peninsula. ... Image File history File links Labrador-Peninsula. ... Hudson Bay, Canada. ... Hudson Strait is a strait connecting Hudson Bay to the Atlantic Ocean, running in an west-east direction. ... Labrador Sea is an arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between Labrador and Greenland. ... Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the worlds hugest estuary, is the outlet of North Americas Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. ... This article is about the region in Canada. ... This is about the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. ... Map of Quebec showing Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean The Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region in Quebec, Canada is distinguished by its physical beauty, especially the Fjord du Saguenay, the estuary of the Saguenay River, stretching through much of the region. ... Map of Cote-Nord in relation to Quebec Côte-Nord (literaly Northern Coast) is the second largest (235,742 km², 17%) region by land area in Quebec, Canada, after Nord-du-Quebec. ... The Nord-du-Québec is the largest of the 17 regions of the province of Quebec in Canada. ... The first European explorer of what is now Quebec was Jacques Cartier, who planted a cross either in the Gaspé in 1534 or at Old Fort Bay on the Lower North Shore and sailed into the St. ...