fiord
Americannoun
noun
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
Expedition With Steve Backshall In the new episode “Greenland: Frozen Frontier,” explorers head to Greenland, where they kayak through the world’s largest fiord during the spring melt.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2020
Figure 17.27 Howe Sound, north of Vancouver, is a fiord with well-defined glacial erosion features.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Central to the debate in Greenland is a $2.3 billion project for an iron ore mine by the British-based London Mining Plc near a fiord in Nuuk.
From Reuters • Mar. 10, 2013
Almost the only fresh supplies obtained here were rock cod and salmon-trout from Disco fiord.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold
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