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High Arctic

British  

noun

  1. the regions of Canada, esp the northern islands, within the Arctic Circle

"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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Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature have identified a previously unknown species of extinct rhinoceros from the High Arctic.

From Science Daily Mar. 24, 2026

Situated on a Canadian body of land known as Ellesmere Island, Lake Hazen is drop-for-drop the largest freshwater lake in the High Arctic.

From Salon Oct. 20, 2022

Climate models project sea ice conditions in the heavily polar bear-populated regions in the High Arctic will deteriorate even further later this century.

From Washington Post Jun. 16, 2022

But one hare living in Canada’s High Arctic has defied those expectations, hopping hundreds of kilometers from its home to one of the country’s northernmost lakes.

From Science Magazine Jan. 13, 2022

Native Americans, possibly ancestral to the modern Inuit, spread throughout the High Arctic around 2000 B.C.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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