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Example sentences for: arctic
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Flights from Montréal or Toronto (2,200 km/1,320 miles) take you up to Baffin Island and the world’s only national park inside the Arctic Circle.
If you feel drawn by a rendezvous with the Midnight Sun, make for these immense lands covering one-third of Canada’s total surface, where, compared to the icy expanses inside the Arctic Circle, the tundra passes for lush meadowland.
As another example, the indigenous people of the Arctic are, as far as I know, still commonly referred to in the United States as Eskimos; but for some time now the PC term in Canada has been Inuit, a term which affords great scope for PC snobbery, as it can be fairly complicated; the people are Inuit; the language is Inuitituk; and an individual is an Inuk.
The author, who dogsleds through the Arctic, decides that the greatest thrill lies in returning home with all his toes.
These toughest of all Canadians have withstood the hardships of the far north, including its icy deserts and Arctic blizzards, but were nearly wiped out by European diseases — measles, mumps, and smallpox.