Sentence examples for fjord from inspiring English sources

One morning we woke up to find ourselves at the end of a fjord in front of the enormous Serrano glacier, whose blueish hues became gradually more visible as the daylight grew.

Everyone follows obediently, for example, when we put down in Condor fjord, walking through a small stretch of subantarctic forest.

That would not prevent the disappearance of the summer sea ice, but it might delay it by a decade or two.As Ny-Alesund's spring research season began, a team of French soot researchers were among the first arrivals, after the Northern fulmars gliding over the fjord.

Colbún, in association with Spain's Endesa, is promoting a $2.4 billion project to build four hydroelectric dams, with a total capacity of 2,430MW, in the Aysén region in the far south where rainfall is abundant.But Aysén is a still-pristine area of fjord and forest.

If the cliff is sheer and tall, like the more dramatic ones above a Norwegian fjord, you should be able to tick off many seconds before hearing a distant crack.

Regulations coming into force in 2015 will prohibit all ships with heavy fuel oil in their bunkers from coming into the fjord, which can only be reached through waters that are part of a pair of nature reserves.

Behind them is the new marine laboratory building, where scientists can work with sea water pumped in from a long way out in the fjord and set to specific temperatures.

A huddle of wooden buildings by an icy fjord on Norway's island of Spitsbergen, high in the Barents Sea, it is the world's most northerly civilian settlement.

Majestic blue icebergs the size of small islands float outside its harbour; its ice fjord drains 7% of the area of the Greenland ice sheet.

Her acclaimed "Stairway to Hell" (2003) sawed through a ceiling to occupy two floors of the Istanbul Modern, while "She Lies" (2010), a new sculpture made of steel, glass and styrofoam that floats in a fjord in Oslo, rises to a height of three-storeys.

Most of the local peaks are now in cloud; the distant vistas are letterboxed by fjord and sky.