- a variation of fjord.
fiord
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
Cod-fishing was now in full activity, and the few men not so employed had gone up the fiord to hunt reindeer.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold
