Word: keewatin
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...Mowat is a small, bearded Canadian who writes with a certain bitter charm about the thoughtless destruction of the Far North and its native inhabitants. He has a passion for permafrost, Eskimos, whales, seals and wolves. He has lived a chapped and manly life in rural Ontario, on the Keewatin Barren Lands and in balky old boats off Newfoundland...
Yukon lies to the west of Canada's Northwest Territories (Mackenzie, Keewatin and Franklin). These four stretch across the sparsely populated top of the continent. Yukon, jammed between Alaska-and Mackenzie, is washed on the north by the Arctic Ocean. It is a tilted rugged land sloping unevenly eastward from the Rockies and northward from British Columbia's upper border which is the 60th Parallel and where Mount Logan. Canada's highest, looms to 19,850 ft. To get into the Yukon sportsmen and other travelers take a Canadian Pacific steamship from Vancouver to Skagway, Alaska, change...
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