Labrador The World's Wild Places Author:Time-Life Books (Editors) Located in the north-easternmost corner of North America, Labrador is politically a section of Newfoundland and geographically part of the Labrador Peninsula, which it shares with the Province of Quebec. Its majestic wilderness encompasses four main vegetation zones. The southernmost area is open mixed forest, which thins out to coniferous fores... more »t in central Labrador and gives way to the area of stunted open woodland at the edge of the tundra. Northern Labrador is tundra, where no trees grow. Among the notable features of the landscape are deep fjords, especially in the area north of Nain. Glaciers have also supplied plunging rivers and large lakes, while in the north rise the mile-high peaks of the Torngat Mountains. « less