DCHP-3

tundra lands

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the inhospitable tundra, of northern Canada.

Quotations

1940
It is characterized by level tundra plain, or desolate mountainous country, normally destitute of trees of any kind, though often relieved by scrubby bushes of birch and willow a few inches high.
1947
The Tundra lands to the east of the Mackenzie basin are known locally as the "Barren Lands" or the "Arctic Prairies."
1959
. . . the great wind . . . came . . . to the south across five hundred miles of tundra plain. . . .