Disko
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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These icebergs, some of them skyscraper-size, calve regularly from the glacier front, crash into a deep fiord and float west into Disko Bay.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2024
"Ever since 2001 I noticed the winter seasons in Disko Bay didn't have as much ice," he says.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022
A few years ago, a Russian venture capitalist named Dmitry Volkov organized a showdown between Dennett and Chalmers near Disko Island, off the west coast of Greenland.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2017
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 coincidence of these two facts were noted by the doctor; that melancholy conjunction was prolific in memories, but soon the heights of Disko disappeared from his view.
From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne, Jules
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