Sentences with phrase «on fjord»

«We knew that these warm waters were reaching the fjords, but we did not know if they were reaching the glaciers or how the melting was occurring,» said Straneo, lead author of the new study on fjord dynamics.

Astrup Fearnley Museet has moved from the established Kvadraturen district to the new, urban outermost district located on the fjord, Tjuvholmen.

After the Bergen Railway was opened in 1909, Flåm became a crossroad for passengers, mail and freight to and from the trains between Oslo and Bergen, in connection with the steamships on the fjord.

Enjoy a leisurely cruise on the fjord, gazing up at sheer cliffs and waterfalls that cascade down forested slopes.

Other scenic highlights include a Danube cruise along the prettiest part of the river on your way to Salzburg; a private boat cruise on the fjord - lake in Lucerne; a scenic drive into the Swiss Engadine, considered the most beautiful mountain area in the world; and more.

Scientists have long suspected Greenland's melting may be accelerated by the ocean (SN Online: 7/6/11), but needed data on fjord depth and glacier thickness to prove it.

Norse colonists established settlements in southern Greenland, often siting their farmsteads on fjords.

For a more mellow experience, hire a private boat on the fjords and go to little hotels that you can't get to by road, or stay at the Amot Opera Farm for an unusual combination of accommodations and music.

In light of some of the before - mentioned changes on Fjords and Beaches, you will be seeing some content relating to social media coming up.

Reading the posts and articles on Fjords & Beaches should leave you with ideas on how to save time and money when planning your next trip.

I feel like such a genious, because you still won't see any travel blogging or social media advice on Fjords & Beaches, but find everything you want to know in the course!

The reason I have not wanted to cover this topic on Fjords & Beaches is simple; this is a travel blog.

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It is one of my favourite hotels in Oslo, and has been added to the prestigious «Love This Hotel» series here on Fjords and Beaches.

Not exact matches

It started on a yacht in one of the fjords off the coast of British Columbia with a helicopter poised on the bow and a pilot I knew, about to go into terrain that I had visited two decades prior.

Stopping at a port or in a fjord in northern Norway is more convenient for NATO subs because it's closer to the Norwegian Sea, though which Russian subs pass on the way to the North Atlantic, transiting the GIUK gap.

According to Fjord, on the flip side the trend also will affect government entities.

If the project goes ahead, it would mean hundreds of supertankers larger than the Exxon Valdez carrying hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude through narrow fjords on our delicate central coast.

Many frigid fjords separated us from Tyler, however, so the packet sat for two days on my newly cleared and freshly dusted desk.

He is as dead as a Parrot (beautiful plumage, the Norwegian Blue), and you can nail his little feet to the perch and say he's pining for the fjords all you want, but Jesus is passed on!

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They conjure up memories of runs on sandy Florida loops and along fields of six - foot - high raspberry canes overlooking a Norwegian fjord, through the morning misty green of Hyde Park, up rocky Vermont hills and around and around the asphalt parking lots of airport hotels.

In a day - long excursion, we trace the spectacular shorelines of various inlets along the Ísafjarðardjúp fjord — many of them uninhabited — arriving at the largest town on the peninsula, Ísafjörður.

«Until recently, we had little information on ocean temperature and water depth in these fjords to quantify these processes, so the interpretation of glacier evolution on a case - by - case basis was difficult.»

Specifically, the paper found that the same water that has been measured in the fjord is under the glacier, lending credence to the idea that the continuity of the glacier depends on the conditions outside the glacier in the fjord.

The helicopter dropped us on a bare, rounded mountain beside the fjord.

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.

The nomadic Inuit, by contrast, hunted seal native to the fjords, and rarely embarked on open - ocean hunts or journeys.

A recent study from the nearby Isfjorden fjord on Spitsbergen showed that 88 percent of the northern fulmars examined had swallowed plastic.

In fact, Norwegian researchers recently confirmed that, in a regularly monitored fjord on the island Spitsbergen, for the first time ever there were no polar cod found — but plenty of Atlantic cod.

In the recently published study, the researchers also investigated how pellets have spread in the coastal region, and they could see that the plastic pellets end up on nearby beaches, in the fjord and the nearby archipelago.

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

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 paper reports that 107 marine - terminating glaciers are underlain by fjords extending on average 67 kilometers (41.6 miles) inland below sea level, a number 300 percent greater than one previous assessment.

Kate Ravilious reports on the Norwegian company Statkraft's proposal to build a football - stadium - sized plant along a Norwegian fjord that would...

Kate Ravilious reports on the Norwegian company Statkraft's proposal to build a football - stadium - sized plant along a Norwegian fjord that would produce, at best, 25 megawatts of electricity by a process based on osmosis (28 February, p 40).

Jakobshavn Isbræ, which is widely believed to be the glacier that produced the large iceberg that sank the Titanic in 1912, drains the Greenland ice sheet into a deep ocean fjord on the coast of the island.

Included in the new paper are some of the most detailed data yet on the depths of the canyons and fjords scarring the Greenland coast, which carry water in from the sea to lap against the ice.

The effects of ocean acidification on a pelagic community and their impacts on food webs and biogeochemical cycles were studied in a long - term mesocosm experiment conducted in the Gullmar Fjord at the west coast of Sweden.

They form, often in lakes or coastal fjords, in ways similar to the ripples that would develop if you blew down on a small puddle of water.

Climate change effects on Arctic fjord and coastal macrobenthic diversity — observations and predictions.

Non-market supporting services are provided by deep - sea ecosystems in the form of habitat provision, nursery grounds, trophic support, refugia, and biodiversity functions provided by assemblages on seamounts, coral and sponge reefs, banks, canyons, slopes, fjords and other settings (Armstrong et al., 2012; Mengerink et al., 2014; Thurber et al., 2014; Levin and Le Bris, 2015).

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.

The village of Dale is nestled between beautiful steep mountains, waterfalls and fjords on the west coast of Norway.

On the agenda: visiting family, touring cities, hiking fjords, elegant dinners, and amusement parts.

Kenai Fjords Tours: Planning to go on you 1st honeymoon or 2nd honeymoon or just spending time with you family and loved one.

Experience authentic Norway on a cruise with Hurtigruten - we take you closer to the epic Norwegian nature, fjords and the northern lights than anyone else.

Along with the scenery comes a bit of dread as this fjord, combined with some unstable cliffs nearby, is one of the most dangerous places on Earth when it comes to the unavoidable natural disaster that lurks just beyond the horizon.

The Wave focuses on the Norwegian tourist attraction of Geiranger which sits in the valley created by one of Scandinavia's most picturesque fjords.

The range of activities and adventures the 40 students undertook was in itself amazing and included a week long Duke of Edinburgh snow - shoeing expedition, sea - kayaking amongst the fjords, avalanche awareness training on a self - supported week long winter trek, and a SES - funded community camp for 200 local children.