fjord
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"It's on its way to being a fjord, not a glacier."
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
The sheer power of that amount of rock plunging into the fjord in under a minute created a gigantic wave almost 500 metres tall.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
Last summer a giant wave swept through a remote fjord in southeast Alaska leaving destruction in its wake.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
IKATEQ, Greenland—Deep in a remote fjord in Greenland, hundreds of rusty fuel drums known locally as “American flowers” litter the icy wilderness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 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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