Richmond Gulf
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Lac Guillaume- Delisle (English Richmond Gulf, Innu Language: Tasiujaq ( " like a lake looks like" ) ) is a 712 km ² large triangular inland bay on the east coast of Hudson Bay just above the 56 north latitude in the region of Nunavik in the the Canadian province of Quebec belonging administrative Region of North -du -Québec. The inland bay is often referred to as golf, estuary or lake because it is connected by a natural canal with the open sea and thus fjord-like character with slight tidal and brackish water has. The longitudinal extent is 61 km, the width of 22 km.
2008 Regional Councils asked the Commission de toponymy du Québec for an official name change of the water in Lac Tasiujaq.
The wide area of Lac Guillaume- Delisle - including the Lac à l' Eau Claire and the Lac D' Iberville - currently the focus of a study on the establishment of a new provincial parks.
The Inuit settlement Umiujaq is located on the coast of Hudson Bay, 15 km west from the north end of the bay.
Geography
The topography of the Lac Guillaume- Delisle is the result of two geological faults that run parallel to the coast. The resulting shifts led to the formation of cliffs that dominate the western shore of Lac Guillaume- Delisle. On the west bank there are high cliffs of sedimentary rocks that rise steeply from the brackish water. This unusual coastal relief from asymmetric hills formed by the Hudsonian Cuesta, the highest layer stage system in Québec. There is only a narrow interruption of this chain of hills in the extreme southwest of Lac Guillaume- Delisle, the so-called " Le Goulet " (French for " bottleneck " or " bottleneck" ), which is a 5 km long kataklinales valley, which is about 300 m is wide and is surrounded by 200 m high rock walls. Large masses of water squeeze due to tidal currents through this channel and lead to height differences in the water levels of up to 50 cm. The passage remains free of ice all year round.
The eastern shore of Lac Guillaume- Delisle increases flatter and consists mostly of the rock of the Canadian Shield, which is in many places covered by a layer of basalt. Several major rivers, including Rivière à l' Eau Claire Rivière au Caribou, Rivière De Troyes and Rivière du Nord flow into the bay. These rivers typically have at their mouths to strong rapids or waterfalls.
Point Pamiallualuk is a narrow rocky spur in the Hudson Bay extends 2 km, just north of Le Goulet. Here you can meet the current flowing northward tidal flow of the Hudson Bay on a weaker reverse flow, which leads to turbulence, which can be exacerbated by strong winds.
Are the remains of the abandoned trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company named Fort Richmond, which consisted in the years 1750-1759 and 1921-1927 on the south coast of the bay.
History
1744 drove Thomas Mitchell, captain of a small ship of the Hudson 's Bay Company ( HBC) in the bay and gave it the name " Sir Atwell 's Lake ", most likely in honor of HBC Deputy Governor Sir Atwell Lake, whose last name is "Lake", however, brought the confusion. Mitchell is listed in the same year, the place name " Winipeq " which was used by the Innu. The Map of William Coats ( 1749) identified the lake under the Cree name " Artiwinipeck " and in English as " Sir Atwell 's Lake ".
1750 established the Hudson 's Bay Company trading post on an island called Factory Iceland off the southern coast of the lake. Because of the low cost of this was abandoned in 1759 again. Later, the bay received other names: " Winipeke Bay ", " Hazard Gulf ", "Gulf of Richmond " and " Richmond Bay " until finally in 1905 the Geography Commission of Canada accepted the name " Richmond Gulf ."
1962 the Québec government decided to give places in northern Quebec French names, so that the bay then from " Lac Guillaume- Delisle ," in honor of the French cartographer Guillaume Delisle ( 1675-1726 ) was called.
Flora and Fauna
The many rivers that flow into the bay, causing the brackish water, which forms a habitat for brook trout, Coregonidae, beluga whales and seals. Many species of birds, including loons, eider ducks and peregrine falcons nest here in the summer months.
There are in the surrounding tundra isolated black spruce and larch.