Torngat Mountains National Park covers 9,700 square kilometres (3,745 square miles) and is located between Northern Québec and the Labrador Sea in Northern Labrador.

It is accessible only by boat, charter plane, or helicopter during summer. As mentioned earlier, the word Torngat comes from the Inuktitut name for the region, turngait, meaning "spirits" or "place of spirits".

Inuit legends hold that it is there that the spirit and physical worlds overlap however, according to Wikipedia contributors, the spirits may not always be of the "good" kind, suggesting that "Torngat" sometimes is interpreted as a "place of evil spirits". The Park Canada website, describes the park as follows:

A saw-tooth skyline of jagged peaks and glacier-carved fjords plunges towards iceberg-dotted indigo waters as polar bears and caribou roam amid some of Earth's oldest rocks.

The subarctic Torngat Mountains are an Inuit homeland, a treasury of the powerful stories, spirits and traditions of centuries of travelers.

Inuit welcome visitors to join them in following ancient footsteps through a dramatic landscape - where nature and culture connect.

Used with permission from "Uncovering the Origin of 1001 Unique Place Names in Newfoundland and Labrador" 2021 Jennifer Leigh Hill

Address of this page: http://nl.ruralroutes.com/TorngatMountainsNational