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
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
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
“In the old days, you could take your sled and go to Disko Island,” Dorph said.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2016
"The way I sense it," said Disko, at the wheel, "is this: The Jennie Cushman business comin' on an empty stummick—" "He—we saw one of them go by," sobbed Harvey.
From Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
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