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The far north counterpart to [[Injun Country]], and part of the [[Hollywood Atlas]] dealing with [[Canada, Eh?]]. Expect any Inuit villages to be a mishmash of outdated stereotypes. [[Polar Bears and Penguins]] are the only wildlife features in the otherwise blank white landscape. The plant life is non-existent, the snow never ever thaws. The only people around are Eskimo who never, ever take off their parkas, and they spend each and every day dog sledding, ice fishing, and seal hunting. They eat nothing but blubber, their ice igloos are their permanent residences ([[Did Not Do the Research|rather than their actual use as temporary shelter]]), and they know nothing about the modern world. And, of course, they send their old people off to die on ice floes.

* ''[[Sannikov Land]]'' is set on an island in the far north populated by a tribe called the Onkilon.

* ''[[Big Miracle]]'' is better than most considering it's based on a true story and depicts the Natives realistically having to deal with the political implications of the whale rescue.

 

== Music ==

* The 1928 hit song "I scream, you scream, we all scream for Ice Cream," written by Howard Johnson, Billy Moll, and Robert A.K. King, describes a fictional college in 'Eskimo-land' called "Oogie-wawa," where football games involve "gore and flying fur" and where the school cheer involves shouting nonsense words and demanding frozen treats.

* "I'm the only gay eskimo" by Corky and the Juice Pigs

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* [[The Far Side|Gary Larson]] made a lot of gags based on this trope.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Holoska from ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'', the northern polar ice cap of Sonic's world and its own country.

 

* Riff and Torg from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' seem to believe the entire state of Alaska is like this when [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030817 Riff moves there].

{{quote|'''Torg:''' Snowshoes?

'''Riff:''' Just as soon as I get settled. }}

* Possibly lampshaded in [[Friendly Hostility]] when Fox visits Fatima in Alaska.

 

== Western Animation ==

* An episode of [[Hey Arnold!]] ends with Helga's sister [[Stepford Smiler|Olga]] going to Alaska "to teach desperate and underprivileged Inuit children". While they did at least update the terminology, the school building is a lone igloo without electricity in the middle of a frozen wasteland.

 

* This is the usual setting for Russian "Chukchi" joke stories about natives of Chukotka.

 

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