fiord

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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 fiord, greedy of its prey, had a loud voice, stunning her by ringing in her ears, as though to swallow her up more surely by coming between her and life.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de