Sentence examples for fiord from inspiring English sources

It was at the top of this pass, 2,100 feet up, that the driver of the bus provided by the cruise line paused to let us drink in our first view of the fiord, a narrow, 25-mile-long finger of water snaking from the bottom of the pass all the way out to the Tasman Sea.

The F0 cod come from dozens of subpopulations of "fiord cod" living along the coast and of skrei, or "wandering" cod, which live offshore.

Paddling back into Grise Fiord, where they had started, was anticlimactic for Boomer.

Starting May 7 from Grise Fiord (population 141), on the south coast, they found the first section involved trudging for 10 hours daily over snow and ice on what remained of their skis, towing their 200-plus-pound kayaks, making and breaking camp, all under the midnight sun.

On Aug. 19, they paddled back into Grise Fiord, Ellesmere's first circumnavigation complete in 104 days.

Locales include Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island, Canada's northernmost community, whose Inuktitut name, Aujuittuq, means "the place that never thaws out".

The park is renowned for the rugged grandeur of its fjords (fiords), mountains, forests, waterfalls, and lakes, including Lake Hauroko, New Zealand's deepest lake.

Surrounded by sea and sky, swept by salty winds and sun rays, it's a dichotomy of soaring mountains and deep fiords, rainforests of conifer, beech and carpets of fern, marshlands of sprawling yellow broom, flax and bulrushes.

Swedish scientists say that herring are carried into some of the fiords of Sweden when the internal waves roll in over the submerged rims of these deep basins.

The Baker and Pascua Rivers flow into the wild fiords that thread their way along the southern Chilean coast.

A two-hour flight, the setting sun reflecting off glaciers and fiords, saw us settle into the damp browns and greens of Terrace, a rough logging town close to the Alaskan panhandle.