Editing Labrador Peninsula (section)

{{Short description|Peninsula in eastern Canada}}
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{{Infobox country geography
| name                 = Labrador Peninsula - Quebec-Labrador Peninsula
| image name           = KillinekIsland-Labrador-2008.JPG
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| map                  = File:Labrador-Peninsula.PNG
| image caption        =[[Killiniq Island|Killinik Island]], [[Torngat Mountains National Park|Torngat Mountains National Park Reserve]]
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| continent            = [[North America]]
| region               = [[Eastern Canada]]
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| km area              = 1,400,000
| miles area           = 540,000
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| percent water        = 12
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| highest point        = [[Mount Caubvick]]
| lowest point         = Sea level
| longest river        = [[La Grande River]]
| largest lake         = [[Caniapiscau Reservoir]]
| climate              = Largely [[Subarctic climate|subarctic]]
| terrain              = Flat and rolling except in the [[Torngat Mountains|Torngat]], [[Otish Mountains|Otish]] and [[Laurentian Mountains|Laurentian]] mountain ranges.
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The '''Labrador Peninsula''', also called '''Quebec-Labrador Peninsula''',<ref name="“Indigenous people and the fur trade in the Quebec-Labrador peninsula”">{{cite web |author1=François Trudel |title="Indigenous people and the fur trade in the Quebec-Labrador peninsula" |url=https://atlas.cieq.ca/le-nord/autochtones-et-traite-des-fourrures-dans-la-peninsule-du-quebec-labrador.pdf |website=Les Presses de l’Université Laval (coll. “Historical Atlas of Quebec”) |publisher=Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises (CIEQ) |access-date=27 August 2024 |pages=3 of 52 |date=2001 |quote=The Peninsula of Quebec-Labrador, sometimes also called Ungava, Labrador, Ungava-Labrador or, politically, New Quebec and Labrador, is a vast territory of approximately one million square kilometers.}}</ref><ref name="Quebec Labrador Peninsula">{{cite web |title=Quebec Labrador Peninsula |url=https://toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/Fiche.aspx?no_seq=285985 |website=Gouvernement of Quebec |publisher=Commission de Toponymy Quebec |access-date=23 August 2024 |date=18 June 1993 |quote=Over the years, many variations of the name have been used: Terraagricule (1558); Land of Labor (1575); Estotilandt (1597) or Estotilande (1656); Terra Cortereale (1597); New Britain (1656).}}</ref> is a large [[peninsula]] in eastern [[Canada]]. It is bounded by [[Hudson Bay]] to the west, the [[Hudson Strait]] to the north, the [[Labrador Sea]] to the east, [[Strait of Belle Isle]] and the [[Gulf of St. Lawrence]] to the southeast. The peninsula includes the region of [[Labrador]],<ref name="Albert Peter Low and the exploration of Quebec-Labrador">{{cite web |author1=Fabien Caron |title=Albert Peter Low and the exploration of Quebec-Labrador |url=https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/cgq/1965-v9-n18-cgq2593/020595ar.pdf |website=Érudit |publisher=Center for Nordic Studies, Laval University |access-date=23 August 2024 |pages=16 |language=en, fr |date=1965 |quote=... he had the consuming curiosity of the born explorer which must always see the other side of the hill or the other end of the river.}}</ref> which is 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]]. It has an area of {{cvt|1,400,000|km2|sqmi|sigfig=3}}.