Disko
Britishnoun
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The Greenland sharks examined in the study were caught between 2020 and 2024 with scientific long lines near the University of Copenhagen's Arctic Station on Disko Island, Greenland.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
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
In June, when the Arctic sun never sets, the lowlands of Disko are covered with flowering angelica.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017
"Good evenin'," said Disko, raising his headgear, "an' haow does your garden grow?"
From Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
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