fiord
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To choose the name, the researchers worked with Jarloo Kiguktak, an Inuit Elder and former mayor of Grise Fiord, the northernmost Inuit community in Canada.
From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026
In 2014, about two dozen American lobsters were reported found in Gullmar Fiord, or “God’s sea,” on the western coast of Sweden.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2016
There, in Grimstad Fiord on the Norwegian coast, lay the new Nazi 50,000-ton battle-wagon�bigger and tougher than any British battleship afloat.
From Time Magazine Archive
In foul weather, the Bismarck and her cruiser escort slipped out of Grimstad Fiord before British bombers could be put to work on them.
From Time Magazine Archive
FJORD, or Fiord, the anglicized Norwegian word for a long narrow arm of the sea running far inland, with more or less precipitous cliffs on each side.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
