Existing area prior to 2020
Characteristics
TERRITORIAL RESERVE FOR PROTECTED AREA PURPOSES | 3,564 KM² | DESIGNATED IN 2009; EXPANDED IN 2020
Land Category – JBNQA and NEQA
Categories II and III
Main conservation objectives
To protect an essential subsistence area for Inuit communities, where they harvest Arctic char, salmon, and fur-bearing animals.
Geological province
New Quebec Orogen (Churchill Province)
Natural regions
Rivière à la Baleine Lowlands
Bioclimatic domain
Forest tundra, open-canopy forest (spruce stands and lichens), Low Arctic Ecozone
Wildlife
Arctic char, salmon, fur-bearing animals, beluga whale sanctuary at the mouth of the Marralik River (1986), George River caribou herd
Hydrology
Marralik River
Archaeological sites
No sites listed in the inventory of archeological sites of Quebec (Inventaire des sites archéologiques du Québec (ISAQ)).
