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

The two Looes, East and West, facing each other across the mouth of the river,—which here looks like the mouth of a river and not a fiord as at Fowey—are easily understood.

From Cornwall by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)