A vocabulary of landscape — a landscape of words
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taiga
The vast belt of boreal coniferous forest that encircles the Northern Hemisphere — spruce, fir, larch, and pine stretching from Scandinavia across Siberia and from Alaska across Canada. The taiga is the largest terrestrial biome on earth, and its interior is among the least populated landscapes outside the polar ice.
Etymology
Russian тайга, from a Turkic or Mongolian source meaning dense, swampy forest. The word entered English through accounts of Siberian exploration.