fjord
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"It's on its way to being a fjord, not a glacier."
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Last summer a giant wave swept through a remote fjord in southeast Alaska leaving destruction in its wake.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
Conservationist and photographer Rebecca Douglas is part of a team researching whales in a remote Icelandic fjord, which has been recording their sounds for a year.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
I drove through the woods and along a fjord until I reached the Alderbrook Resort & Spa, in a town called Union.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
At the end of the long fjord their cove was on, icebergs calved off the ends of twelve or more glaciers with a roar throughout the days that sent birds screeching up into the air.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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