tundra

Example Sentences

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Mosses are well known for surviving in places that challenge most life, including the Himalayan peaks, the scorching deserts of Death Valley, the Antarctic tundra, and the cooling surfaces of active volcanoes.

From Science Daily

Our robot had arrived at the tundra, where cold temperatures and short growing seasons made it impossible for trees to take root.

From Literature

Or perhaps you’ve spent the last many months in a coma, or cut off from the world in the frozen tundra of Antarctica.

From Los Angeles Times

When Dave Pettifer was a Royal Marines commando, he fought in the jungle, endured the Arctic tundra and completed three tours of Afghanistan.

From BBC

These extremely remote islands about 1,000 miles north of Antarctica consist mostly of barren tundra.

From Salon