Hammer of Thor

The Hammer of Thor is a large T-shaped inuksuk on the north bank of the Arnaud River in northern Quebec’s Ungava Peninsula, near Ungava Bay. Built from three stacked stones and standing about 3.3 metres high, it is unusually monumental in scale for such a structure. Archaeologist Thomas E. Lee brought it to wider attention in 1964 and argued that its form showed Norse presence in the region about a thousand years earlier. That view did not prevail. The monument is now considered more likely part of the long inuksuk-building tradition associated with the Dorset culture and related Arctic peoples, though its exact maker remains unknown.

Quebec · Canada