PAMIOK
North of the Arnaud River mouth is a low ridgeline extending, at low tide, to islands lying in Ungava Bay. At this place between the large open water marvels, there is a wide ice corridor connecting land to sea ice. On shore near the ice corridor, the Big People built several of their low wall shelters.
The Norse named the island Pamiok, meaning "nice point". On Pamiok Island are three sets of low rock walls. Two of them are seven man-spans in length and three man-spans wide. One set of low walls is thirteen man-spans in length and four man-spans wide. Each site consists of two parallel rock walls three or four man-spans apart.
The medieval Norse boats, made of wood, were very heavy compared to skin boats, had more curvature, and the wood segments, which could break with sidewise pressure, were held together by nails. So the medieval Norse boat was probably not rolled on top of the low stone walls. Lee gives the best descriptions of Pamiok Island and the low stone walls. (Lee, 1968)
