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The barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus; but subject to a recent taxonomic revision) is a subspecies of the reindeer (or the caribou in North America) that is found in the Canadian territories of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, in northern Alaska and in south-western Greenland.
Explorer Joseph Tyrrell estimated the "Caribou Eskimo" numbered nearly 2,000 when he led the Geological Survey of Canada's Barren Lands expeditions of 1893 and 1894. Eugene Arima classifies the Hauniqtuurmiut, Ha'vaqtuurmiut, Paallirmiut, and Qairnirmiut as Kivallirmiut "southern, latter" bands: through the end of the 19th century, they were ...
Barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus), subspecies of caribou found in Canada and Greenland.. James Charles Critchell Bullock (6 September 1898 – 31 March 1953) an Englishman best known for his diaries and photographs of an expedition in 1923 with John Hornby across the Barren Grounds.
The Porcupine caribou herd of barren-ground caribou, named for a river that flows from Yukon into Alaska, was originally named R. ogilviensis Millais, 1915 for its winter range in the Ogilvie mountains, [22] but morphological and genetic analyses showed it to be nearly indistinguishable from other barren-ground caribou; after the revision, it ...
The most common variety of reindeer in Greenland is the native wild barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus), which is a medium-sized race of reindeer also found in Canada. The second type are the feral (semi- domestic ) mountain reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus tarandus ), brought from Norway in 1952.
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Barren Ground, a 1925 novel by Ellen Glasgow "Barren Ground" (song), a 1990 song by Bruce Hornsby; Barren ground shrew (Sorex ugyunak), a small shrew found in Canada and Alaska; Barren Ground, Saint Helena, a settlement on Saint Helena, South Atlantic Ocean; Barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus), a subspecies of caribou found ...
Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis announced Monday they now know who Mr. X was. Oscar James Nedd of White Plains, New York. He was 23, a slip of a man barely 140 pounds, no more than 5-foot-5 ...