Barren Grounds

plural noun

1. a sparsely inhabited region of tundra in N Canada, especially in the area W of Hudson Bay.

Example Sentences

They were also to use 'another sort of fodder which they call La Lucern at Paris for dry and barren grounds'.

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In the barren grounds, bordering on the Arctic regions, rein-deer still abound.

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The afternoon was employed in arranging the loads for crossing the barren grounds.

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It is not the higher latitude that keeps him out of the Barren Grounds, but the absence of timber.

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In many parts of the Barren Grounds there must be as many as 10 linear miles of caribou trails to every square mile of territory.

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