Disko
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Over 35,000 cubic metres of ice calve from the glacier each year, and more icebergs spew into Disko Bay than anywhere else in the northern hemisphere.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2022
Like the others, she felt hopeful that the show would help raise awareness about Denmark’s relationship with Greenland, and she said she felt permanently altered by her encounters with those spectacular icebergs in Disko Bay.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2022
Written sources reported that the Norse routinely rowed up to 1500 kilometers to walrus migratory grounds near Disko Bay in western Greenland.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2016
The island, the largest in Greenland outside of Greenland itself, lies about thirty miles west of Ilulissat, across Disko Bay.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2016
We have seal pelts enough to make every man aboard rich; we can get more at Disko and Copper Island.
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
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