wilderness
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Postmaster George Clarke, spending his third season at Port Lockroy, said: "I've really fallen in love with the Antarctic wilderness"
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
There are an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Sami people across the vast Arctic wilderness of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia's Kola peninsula.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Events cannot alter the movement of visitors, wildlife or traffic, close roads or trails, or take place in designated wilderness areas.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
James and his combat dog Odin survive the crash, just barely, but they’re stranded deep in the wilderness, miles from civilization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Cloaking his savagery under the banner of civilization, Hale portrayed himself as an American pioneer who had helped forge a nation out of the raw wilderness.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
America’s great national parks and wildernesses must be littered with dead relatives.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026
AppLovin has an ad platform that facilitates ads surrounding mobile apps, especially games, one of the last untamed wildernesses of digital advertising.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
Orchards, wildernesses and bowers abound in her fiction, where her heroines contemplate curated views or scamper across fields and over stiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The famous walking route from the central belt to the Highlands takes walkers along the shores of Loch Lomond and across Rannoch Moor - one of the last wildernesses in Europe.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
The foragers were there before us and they brought about dramatic changes even in the densest jungles and the most desolate wildernesses.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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