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igloo  

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  • The igloo is one of the house types of the Eskimo people. Eskimo culture developed along the shores of the Baffin Land and the northern parts of Hudson Bay in latitudes 65 to 70 and has been there for more than 2,000 years. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Housing; Igloo]

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