Sentences with phrase «fjords where»

From the ocean, the fresh water flows into the Greenland fjords where is influence local circulation with impacts on the production and ecosystem structure.

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The Mare Australis turned down the island - dotted Beagle Channel and traversed lunar - barren fjords, eventually depositing us at Magdalena Island where we welcomed by 120,000 Magellan penguins.

For smaller oysters with crisp, clean flavors, you'll want oysters from colder, cleaner waters and narrower, smaller waterways, she says: «Think: glaciers and fjords, places where you can see through the water.

Since 2010, he's noticed groups of two dozen humpbacks temporarily in the local fjord, where herring have swum up in huge numbers to stock up for subsequent migrations south.

Obama will then travel on Sept. 1 to the Seward area, where he is expected to view the Kenai Fjords and the Harding Icefield, which is home to nearly 40 glaciers.

We don't know for sure where shark pups are born, but one hypothesis is that females give birth to live young in Arctic fjords, MacNeil says.

On the far side of the fjord, the captain dropped me and four other hikers off at the base of a long ravine, where a series of animal trails led through a dense fern jungle and up a granite cliff face bisected by a waterfall.

The calving front of the glacier is now located in a deeper area of the fjord, where the underlying rock bed is about 1300 metres below sea level, which the scientists say explains the record speeds it has achieved.

Or head to Kenai Fjords National Park, about 120 miles south of Anchorage, where a well - maintained trail takes you alongside the dramatic blue face of the Exit Glacier.

Unlike the great ice sheet of Antarctica, the Greenland ice sheet is melting both on its surface and also at outlet glaciers that drain the ice sheet's mass through deep fjords, where these glaciers extend out into the ocean and often terminate in dynamic calving fronts, giving up gigaton - sized icebergs at times.

These roads have a tendency to get quite narrow in places — often funneling two - way traffic down to little more than a single lane with next - to - zero notice — so the Velar had moments where it felt quite large as a fjord explorer.

After university, she travelled solo in Scandinavia, where she learned to camp, bathe in fjords, and carry everything she needed.

The closest tour to Reykjavík is the Fjord Serenity where seals are spotted 98 % of the time.

The small Norwegian city of Ålesund is geographically unique — it sits on a collection of seven small islands where a handful of fjords meets the... Read More

With simmering volcanoes and spouting geysers, glaciers and icebergs, and deeply carved fjords, Iceland is a land where geology comes to life.

Journey to a land where fjords, canals and charming cities combine, and explore the three kingdoms of Scandinavia.

Surrounded by picturesque, almost fjord - like, scenery - where towering mountains fall steeply to the water's edge - Lake Como is a wonderful place for a scenic stroll.

Travel full - circle in just 10 days on this exciting fly - drive adventure and encounter the incredible sights of South Iceland before driving the stunning east coast where narrow fjords carved by Ice...

Malcesine, positioned at the foot of the dramatic Monte Baldo, is a popular town at the northern end of Lake Garda where the lake resembles the Norwegian fjords.

From the fjords of McLaren Harbour, guests are ferried up a jungle river by outrigger canoe and welcomed at a traditional village where village elders share the ways of bush medicine, fire making and traditional tattooing.

In Bergen, you'll visit the Fløibanen funicular, where magnificent views of Bergen and the fjords await.From the magnificent scenery to the vibrant cities — including Oslo — this guided tour through Norway is sure to delight all of your senses.

Here shuttle buses will take you to the top of the fjord, where you can admire the cliffs from above, one of the best views I have ever seen!

Alaska is where Cian loaded up the most on his park ranger badges — Denali, Lake Clark, Kenai Fjords, and Alaska Land Management in Anchorage.

Indie labour of love project «Milkmaid of the Milky Way» is a 90s style point and click adventure game where you play Ruth, a lone milkmaid living on a remote farm in a faraway fjord in 1920's Norway.

Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an award - winning, classic point»n' click adventure game where you play Ruth, a young woman living alone on a remote farm in a faraway fjord in 1920's Norway.

Yet, where combat in the Japan Studio - developed title was easy to follow thanks to a linear progression, occasionally Soul Fjord surrounds the protagonist with attacking adversaries, which makes staying on beat downright difficult.

From there, we had to venture northward up the fjord to see where that same glacier ends today — because all the rest has melted.

The fjord ends with an underwater morene, where the (about 800 m thick) icebergs are pushed over by tides, wind and the presuure of the icebergs behind them.

Twenty years ago, giant icy fingers of glaciers spread across its fjords, including the Kungsfjorden where Ny - Alesund is perched.

We've seen this in glaciers after the loss of the Larsen A and B ice shelves (relatively small shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula), and we've seen a similar effect in Greenland, where the floating end of the glacier, and the fjord choked with calved bergs, could apparently perform a similar braking function, now lost for several rapidly - retreating glaciers.

Fig 60 [not shown] draws attention to the greater intrusions of the sea in Belgium, where Bruges was a major port, and in East Anglia where a shallow fjord with several branches led inland toward Norwich.

Near the airport, where the official Svalbard meteorological station is located, air temperatures are relatively high (about -18 oC), which is interpreted as the result of the onshore airflow from SE across the ice free fjord.

Rapid sea - level rise from these processes is limited to those regions where the bed of the ice sheet is well below sea level and thus capable of feeding ice shelves or directly calving icebergs rapidly, but this still represents notable potential contributions to sea - level rise, including the deep fjords in Greenland (roughly 0.5 m; Bindschadler et al., 2013), parts of the East Antarctic ice sheet (perhaps as much as 20 m; Fretwell et al., 2013), and especially parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet (just over 3 m; Bamber et al., 2009).

The ice sheet keeps Greenland's population of 57,000 confined to the coastline, where ice gives way to fjords and barren mountains.

In Greenland, where the glaciers empty onto narrow fjords, the ice shelves, also known as ice tongues, are far less extensive.

There will be floes and bergs dotting the waters; there will be remnant shelves in deeply - cut sheltered fjords, where even the 24 - hour Arctic sun can only shine briefly each day.