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  • I need only mention the splendid view of a portion of Christian's Sound -- also called Fiord -- which I lost on the former journey from the darkness of the night.

    Visit to Iceland Ida Pfeiffer 1827

  • Hump, if you will look on the west coast of the map of Norway you will see an indentation called Romsdal Fiord.

    Chapter 10 2010

  • First Air charter flight, number 6560, was traveling from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories to Resolute Bay, and was scheduled to continue on to Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island.

    Plane crashes in Canadian Arctic, 12 killed 2011

  • Fiord Lakes develop when fiords rise above sea level as a result of isostatic rebound (uplift of land after being depressed by ice).

    Origin and age of lakes 2008

  • Fiord ecosystems in the South of this LME are in need of protection.

    New Zealand Shelf large marine ecosystem 2008

  • Here are a few more pictures and words for you regarding the CSA/McGill University Satellite system here at the CSA camp at Expedition Fiord on Axel Heiberg.

    NASA Watch: Exploration: April 2008 Archives 2008

  • Production at Alpine is to be maintained using tie-ins to the Nanuq and Fiord satellite fields beginning in late 2006.

    Energy profile of the United States 2008

  • Here are a few more pictures and words for you regarding the CSA/McGill University Satellite system here at the CSA camp at Expedition Fiord on Axel Heiberg.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: April 2008 Archives 2008

  • Also of interest the report notes that the “Ayles Ice Shelf moved about 5 km out of Ayles Fiord.”

    Ellesmere Island Ice Shelves « Climate Audit 2007

  • By intuition I had already chosen Kangalakksiorvik Fiord as the place where my Glak would be bom.

    Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

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