You'd find it kind of strange, people getting ready to go out boating when it's really rough in thefiord.
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Because of the orientation of thefiord, it can change the prevailing wind directions more to east/west directions.
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Once in thefiordour ships could command the whole of its vast coastline, with its roads and railway and its aerodrome.
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All round this coast, which is full of fiords and lochs, a great deal of the transport is done by steamer.
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Apparently, he meant places up the fiords which he named, of 1,000 to 4,000 people.
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Some lochs could also be called firths, fiords, estuarys, straits or bays.
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In this area, it is notable that whales often enter into narrow fiords either to feed or rest.
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They discovered an unmappedfiordand named several glaciers.
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After heavy rain however, many hundreds of temporary waterfalls can be seen running down the steep sided rock faces that line thefiord.
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Sixty percent of the archipelago is glacier, and the islands feature many mountains and fiords.
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Two of the submarines are lost while attempting to cut through submarine nets at the entrance to thefiord.
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This type of sound is more properly termed a "fjord" (or "fiord").
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The water of the lake penetrates along the beds of the rivers mentioned above, and forms a lot of fiords and small islands.
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The fishing took place from small boats on thefiordand was mainly for eal.
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Thefiordis home to one of the southernmost populations of bottlenose dolphins.
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