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Barren Ground(s) 
the inhospitable tundra, of northern Canada.
See also: barren(s) (def. 2) Barren Land(s) Great Barrens Ground Hudsonian zone tundra tundra lands Barren(s)
- 1691 (1929) 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. . . .
- 1691 (1929) 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. . . .