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Barren Ground(s)

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the inhospitable tundra, of northern Canada.

See: barren(s)(def. 2),Barren Land(s),Great Barrens Ground,Hudsonian zone,tundra,tundra lands,Barren(s)

Quotations

1691

Now ye manner of their hunting these Beast [musk-oxen] on ye Barren ground is when they see a great parcel of them together they surround them . . . shooting . . . till they break out at some place or other. . . .

1897

The Barren Grounds extend . . . from the interior of Labrador on the east to Alaska on the west, and from the limit of timber on the south away into the Arctic Circle.

1964

A thousand or more years ago, a band of Eskimo caribou hunters trekked 200 miles inland to the Barren Grounds, a bleak, God-forgotten plain. . . .