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fiord

NOUN
  1. a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway

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  • And Fiordiligi puts up more resistance than her sister Dorabella, and her brilliant coloratura arias reflect her emotional torment.
  • Fresh water enters the fiord in the form of melt streams which flow down to the pycnocline. Ellesmere Island Ice Shelves « Climate Audit
  • The World Heritage area contains the largest populations of the following other uncommon or declining bird species: the forest race of New Zealand falcon; fernbird Bowdleria punctata and Fiordland crested penguin Eudyptes pachyrhynchus. Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
  • There is a proposed diversion of the river draining Lake Koroko in the Fiordland National Park, and diverting a discharge of Lake Wakatipu down into Southland.
  • The fiord was a hive of activity, with ferries crossing from one side of the harbour to the other, local ferries coming and going, and any number of fishing boats. Two Weeks To Remember
  • The outside must always be weakening, and the pressure on the inner increasing by the constant flow of water into the fiord, which is rising day by day. Steve Young
  • We dove under a glass partition and sat outside wet-haired, close to the edge of the fiord. So Far, So Good
  • The oil terminus of Valdez lies at the end of a twenty-four-mile-long deepwater fiord in the northeastern corner of Prince William Sound. BARRACUDA 945
  • fiord," -- a word which geographers of every nation have adopted into their respective languages. Seraphita
  • That South Island kokako investigation team included Christchurch researcher Ron Nilsson, who has spent 20 years searching remote valleys in Nelson, Westland, Fiordland and Stewart Island. Archive 2007-01-01
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