tundra

Hold the Dark is set in the Alaskan wilderness, in an isolated village at the lip of the tundra.

The emissions of frozen CO2 and the tundra around the Arctic Ocean have already begun as it thaws.

The characteristic tundra animal is the reindeer, though musk-ox, woolly mammoth, and others were wide-spread at this time.

Tundra and steppe animals became more rare; a forest and meadow fauna took possession of Europe.

Cro-Magnon man had always been a reindeer hunter, accustomed and well adapted to the life and conditions of tundra or steppe.

Tundra, steppe, and forest had each its special types of animal as well as plant life.

On the tundra south of the mouth of the Yukon River an orphan boy once lived with his aunt.