noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ last
▪ great , vast
▪
Antarctica, the last great ~
▪ barren , desert , desolate , howling ( esp. AmE )
▪
He depicted the frontier as a howling ~ inhabited by uncivilized savages.
▪ frozen
▪ remote
▪ trackless ( esp. AmE ), uncharted
▪ pristine , unspoiled
▪ designated , protected (both AmE )
▪
The trail passes through a federally designated ~.
▪ mountain
▪ Alaskan , Arctic , Canadian , etc.
▪ political ( figurative )
▪
the man who brought the party back from the political ~
VERB + WILDERNESS
▪ tame , transform
▪
They transformed the ~ into a garden.
▪ explore
▪
They set out to explore the continent's last great ~.
▪ preserve , protect (both esp. AmE )
WILDERNESS + NOUN
▪ area ( esp. AmE )
▪
officially designated ~ areas and wildlife refuges
▪ preservation , protection (both esp. AmE )
▪ years ( figurative , esp. BrE )
▪
His ~ years (= when he was out of politics and the public eye) in the 1990s were spent in Canada.
PREPOSITION
▪ in the ~
▪
We were hopelessly lost in the ~.