High Arctic

British

noun

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

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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

The High Arctic, such as Greenland, had the lowest danger.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023

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

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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