Barren Grounds

American  

plural noun

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

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Barren Grounds

Having settled their accounts with Bruin of the Barren Grounds, our travellers proceeded down the Mackenzie river to the Hudson’s Bay post of Fort Simpson.

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker

In 1894 he again crossed the Barren Grounds, this time travelling from the north end of Reindeer Lake to a point on Hudson Bay, about 200 miles south-west of Chesterfield Inlet.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell

Notes on the coastal district of the eastern Barren Grounds and Melville Peninsula from Igloolik to Cape Fullerton.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper

The favorite migratory highways are the long, sinuous ridges that stretch across the Barren Grounds in a sufficiently approximate north-south direction to serve the needs of the Caribou.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper

On the Barren Grounds proper they frequent the open summits and slopes of the ridges, the dwarf birch thickets, the sedge bogs, and the peat bogs.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper

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