Sentences with phrase «windswept wild lands»

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But much of the Avalon is tundra, known locally as barrens — an open, windswept land home to flocks of ptarmigan and the southernmost wild caribou herd in the world, where the trees, if they grow at all, cower in dense, waist - high thickets known as tuckamore.

The south, where the land is more wild, has several sections through the backcountry that lack these creature comforts, but make up for it with stunning night skies and vast, almost extraterrestrial, landscapes, empty except for the windswept hiker and an occasional camel.