754 EAST COAST OF LABRADOR. 



The rate of the tidal streams in the passage is estimated to be about 

 7 knots, and the eddies and wliirlpools are bad except at slack Avater. 

 Small icebergs with more draft than any ship would have are said 

 to pass through. 



Rocks. — Three rocks bear 160°, distant 5^ miles from cape Chidley. 

 The middle and highes.t one is about 50 feet high, and the others are 

 about 30 feet high. 



An isolated rock, 30 feet high, bears 170°, distant 3 miles from the 

 southeastern part of Kikkertaksoak ; it is the northern of the outlying 

 rocks which skirt the coast southeastward to Nanuktok. 



Cape Chidley (Kidlinek). — Kikkertaksoak island, 1,500 feet 

 high, is the southeastern of two high islands, apparently bold-to; on 

 northwesterly bearings, it makes, as an island with two lumps, the 

 western being the higher; cape Chidley, the northeastern end of the 

 island, is in latitude 60° 33' north, and longitude 64° 14' west of 

 Greenwich. 



The northwestern of these two islands is about 1,000 feet high. 

 The whole Chidley peninsula seems to consist of a nimiber of islands 

 separated by narrow channels or tickles of deep water. 



Tidal streams. — The tidal streams off cape Chidley are rapid. _ 



Ice. — It is recorded that a vessel was beset by ice off cape Chidley on 

 August 11, 1905, but that there was very little ice off the cape on the 

 19th of the same month. 



Fog was experienced off cape Chidley on August 11. Sometimes 

 it lifted a little and allowed the land, ^ mile distant, to be seen; and 

 at other times everything was obscured. On this coast, dense fog 

 often covers only a small, sharply defined area. 



