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View of a typical tundra environment in Greenland, with a glacier visible in the background. Tundra is the name given to a region spreading across North America and Eurasia where the ground is frozen all year (permafrost). With too severe a climate for trees to grow, tundra lands support hardy vegetation such as moss and lichen, although during the brief summer many flowering plants appear when the top few centimetres of soil thaw.

Region in high latitudes with almost no trees - they cannot grow because the ground is permanently frozen (permafrost). The vegetation consists mostly of grasses, sedges, heather, mosses, and lichens. Tundra stretches in a continuous belt across northern North America and Eurasia. Tundra is also used to describe similar conditions at high altitudes.



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With the exception of our little cove, the other beaches sloped gently back for a distance of half-a-mile or so, into what I might call rocky meadows, with here and there patches of moss and tundra grass.
The great world had never heard his name, but it was known far and wide in the vast silent North, by whites and Indians and Eskimos, from Bering Sea to the Passes, from the head reaches of remotest rivers to the tundra shore of Point Barrow.
 
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