h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

h2g2 made a mistake when it wrote that Newfoundland and Labrador is located in Husdon Bay. It is nowhere near Hudson Bay. It is, in fact, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Hi, welcome to the site.

Are you sure this is a mistake? I thought that Newfoundland and Labrador was in Hudson Bay, and that Hudson bay was in (or connected to, very near) the Atlantic Ocean.

Where did you see this 'error'? Are you able to post the link of the location?

If it is in an edited guide entry, you should probably go to <./>Feedback-Editorial</.> and let the h2g2 staff know over there. That way it can get fixed. If it is just a normal entry written by a researcher, you should post on that entry to let them know.

Niwt

In fact, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador can not truly be said to be "in" either the Atlantic Ocean nor Hudson Bay. The island of Newfoundland is in the Atlantic Ocean, the Labrador part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador is on the Atlantic Coast of Canada, north of the St. Lawrence River, bordering Quebec Province which lies between Labrador and Hudson Bay. Islands within Hudson Bay are generally a part of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Hudson Bay is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the Hudson Strait and the Labrador Sea (past Ungava Bay at the northern tip of Quebec. The Labrador Sea's relationship to the Atlantic Ocean is roughly analogous to the North Sea's relationship to the Atlantic Ocean.)

Here you go: http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/national/can_political_e/referencemap_image_view

And, for the real H2G2 poop on it all: A53443

Still would like to know where you saw the mistake.

are you misreading this passage from the Canada entry?

"in Manitoba the Prairie gives way to the ancient, lake-covered Canadian Shield which covers Canada from Manitoba to the northernmost Maritime Province, Newfoundland and Labrador, wrapping itself around the inland sea of Hudson Bay"

This bit doesn't say that Newfoundland and Labrador wraps itself around Hudson Bay (anymore than it says Manitoba or the Prairies wrap themselves around Hudson Bay): It says that the Canadian Shield wraps itself around Hudson Bay. Which it does.