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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

Fur, not glory, was the quest when the dog bells went ringing over the wintry wastes from Saskatchewan to Athabaska, across the Barren Lands, and north to the Arctic.

From The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

In all this great country between here and the Barren Lands, where the musk-ox lives, there is not one Indian in a hundred who would steal another Indian's trap, or the game in it.

From The Gold Hunters A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds by Curwood, James Oliver

"That is a bit of the Barren Lands that creeps down between those mountains off there, M'seur," he said.

From The Danger Trail by Curwood, James Oliver

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