All 5 Uses of
tundra
in
Into the Wild
- Froze to death up on the tundra.†
p. 60..4
- By the end of September, snow was piling up on the tundra, and the lake had frozen over.
p. 82..9 *tundra = a vast treeless plain in the northern arctic regions where the subsoil is always frozen
- Walking this gnarled shore one summer afternoon, I blundered upon a matrix of faint stone rectangles embedded in the tundra: vestiges of the monks' ancient dwellings, hundreds of years older, even, than the Anasazi ruins in Davis Gulch.†
p. 97..2
- It feels more malevolent than other, more remote corners of the state I know, the tundra-wrapped slopes of the Brooks Range, the cloud forests of the Alexander Archipelago, even the frozen, gale-swept heights of the Denali massif.†
p. 176..7
- Two years out of England, winter overtook his small party as they plodded across an expanse of tundra so vast and empty that they christened it the Barrens, the name by which it is still known.†
p. 180..7
Definition:
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(tundra) a vast treeless plain in the northern arctic regions where the subsoil is always frozen (between the ice cap and the tree line)