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Barren Lands

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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

The caribou hunt had brought other Indians to 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)

And long before the twilight hours of sleep they were sweeping out ahead of him in all their glory--the Barren Lands of the map-makers, his paradise.

From The Alaskan by Curwood, James Oliver

The Barren Lands were bare but for an occasional oasis of trees like an island of refuge in a shelterless sea.

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)