Barren Grounds

plural noun

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

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They were also to use 'another sort of fodder which they call La Lucern at Paris for dry and Barren Grounds'.
A Short History of English Agriculture | W. H. R. Curtler
In the Barren Grounds, bordering on the Arctic regions, rein-deer still abound.
Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory | John M'lean
The afternoon was employed in arranging the loads for crossing the Barren Grounds.
Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea | John Franklin
It is not the higher latitude that keeps him out of the Barren Grounds, but the absence of timber.
Bruin | Mayne Reid
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.
The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin | Francis Harper

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