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Barren Lands

British  

plural noun

  1. Also known as: the Barren Grounds.  a region of tundra in N Canada, extending westwards from Hudson Bay: sparsely inhabited, chiefly by Inuit

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He has lived a chapped and manly life in rural Ontario, on the Keewatin Barren Lands and in balky old boats off Newfoundland.

From Time Magazine Archive

Practicing this counsel of perfection, he wandered purposefully to Mexico, California, Alaska, the Barren Lands north of Hudson Bay, the centre of Africa, Siberia, South America, Burma.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only the wolf pack roamed the Barren Lands.

From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

They have been telling me about the Barren Lands.

From On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland by Sayler, H. L. (Harry Lincoln)

Cummins was away for a month on a trap-line that went into the Barren Lands.

From The Honor of the Big Snows by Curwood, James Oliver