How To Use Fiord In A Sentence

  • 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
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  • 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
  • In the former case a tactical operation may defend submarines deployed deep inside bays, fiords or inner seas.
  • The fiord, by my recollection, is never more than a mile or a mile and a half wide at the utmost, and we came "plunk" up against the head of this fiord with a 3650-foot cliff, which we scaled, and tried to make our charts or cross observations from the top. Story of Labrador Medical Mission
  • The fiord is the show place of the Eastern Arctic and defies description. The Eastern Arctic Patrol
  • MetService has issued a severe weather warning for Westland and Fiordland, as bands of heavy rain pushed by strong northwesterlies move up from Milford Sound. Radio New Zealand News Headlines
  • And Fiordiligi puts up more resistance than her sister Dorabella, and her brilliant coloratura arias reflect her emotional torment.
  • The word fiord, sometimes spelled fjord, comes from Norway, where fiords are common. Undefined
  • The harbour was the natural fiord, which is now the Vieux port; and the modern splendid street Canebière runs along the site of the old shipbuilding-docks of the Greeks. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
  • Mitre Peak magnetises photographers, and the fiord's sheer cliffs excite both admiration and apprehension.
  • As soon as I saw the International Women's Day Food Blogging Event, hosted by 1x umruehren bitte aka kochtopf and fiordisale, I knew I wanted to participate. Buttermilk Cornmeal Bread with Fresh Chiles and Cheddar in Honor of International Women's Day
  • The purpose of the visit was to navigate into an ice-filled fiord.
  • Of all the sea-robbers who sailed from their rocky dwelling-places by the fiords of Norway, none enjoyed higher renown than Rolf, called the ganger, or walker, as tradition relates, because his stature was so gigantic that, when clad in full armor, no horse could support his weight, and he therefore always fought on foot. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
  • For the veteran searchers seeking signs of the long-lost South Island kokako, a valley east of Puysegur Point in Fiordland National Park sounds like a breakthrough. Archive 2007-01-01
  • The blue cod fishery down there is so threatened that two whole fiords have had to be closed in a rahui, while the fishery rebuilds.
  • There, however, the current running north-east is called the Gulf Stream, and it is the warm water of this stream, coming from the equator, which makes the climate of north-western Europe so mild, and prevents even the northernmost fiords of Norway from freezing in winter. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
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  • Less than a year ago, veteran searchers seeking signs of the kokako unsuccessfully searched a valley east of Puysegur Point in Fiordland National Park for signs of the grey bird with orange wattles at each side of the beak. Archive 2007-01-01
  • Look away from a mirror-flat fiord reflecting a mound of clouds, and when you turn back there may be milky waters below a snow-capped mountain streaked with sunlight. So Far, So Good
  • In the west, the fiordlands and alpine terrain of British Columbia attest to vigorous glaciation of high-relief mountains in a snowy, maritime climate.
  • A few mountain valleys in Fiordland harbor the total wild population (about 170 birds) of the rare and endangered takahe Notornis mantelli (E), a large flightless rail believed extinct until "rediscovered" in 1948. Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
  • After one night in Bergen, participants take a cruise along the Sognefjord, the deepest and longest fiord in the world.
  • A fiord is a narrow inlet or arm of the sea that runs far inland, and is bordered by high, steep cliffs that reach far below the surface of the water. Undefined
  • Articulations on a vast scale, like the southern peninsulas of Asia, produce quite different cultural and historical effects from small physical sub-divisions, like the fiord promontories and "skerries" of Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
  • The fierce wind that had been shoving our vehicle into oncoming cars was whipping the deep-blue fiord into a frenzy. So Far, So Good
  • Also, a deep low over the Tasman Sea is expected to move southeastwards past Fiordland and Southland overnight, forcing a strong northwesterly flow across much of the South Island. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
  • See, the ice of the fiord is a turquoise, the dark pine forests are mere threads of brown; for us all abysses should be thus adorned. Seraphita

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