Returning to shore, I saw a pod of beluga whales travelling across the fjord.
Just outside of town, hiking opportunities abound in the lush green hills that tower over the fjord.
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Scientists have found a novel way to unravel the mysteries of a fjord in the high Arctic.
We accompany oceanographers in inflatable boats as they collect data on the warming water currents in the fjord.
All along the fjord, word quickly had it, the waters had risen and had breached the harbor walls.
Oh, and we danced the night away out on the fjord of Killary.
Parked at the foot of a dramatic fjord and bookended by massive cliffs, the historic town is a top spot for whale watching.
They mounted sensors on white whales to measure the salinity and temperature patterns of the fjord during its initial winter freezing.
The city sits on the innermost part of the Oslo Fjord, with forested hills, more than 40 islands and 343 lakes.
Situated in a fjord, the hotel offers the austere beauty of Greenland right at your fingertips: icebergs, snow and sunny vistas.
We join the Arctic Sunrise as it moves slowly up Sermilik Fjord.
The fjord of Killary was flooding when no other place was flooding.
Its a 100-square-meter plant, based in a paper-pulp factory near Oslo Fjord and is expected to generate up to four kilowatts of power.
Once the flood waters had dissipated under the glacier and out through the fjord, Byrd was seen to return to its normal behaviour.
Then you will be ready to hike in craggy Parc du Saguenay or sea kayak up the fjord with tour operator Mer et Monde.
These beaches made Suchen think of a ragged shoreline in Ireland or the clashing waves of the North Sea at the mouth of a Norwegian fjord.
Nine of us headed off early on Saturday morning to kayak in the Indian Arm Provincial Park, an 18 kilometre fjord just 30 minutes away from Vancouver City.
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Having grown up in the area, he guides tailor-made tours on or around the fjord (by mountain bike or kayak, according to your skill level, time commitment and interests).
Participants can enjoy a leisurely late-afternoon ride along the fjord's edge and into the surrounding hills, followed by a soak in the guesthouse's hot-pot plus a two-course dinner in the pretty onsite restaurant.
Sit in the single, brushed steel and wood seat unveiled by the Queen of Norway in 2006, which offers awe-inspiring views of the cruise ships that appear like small matchstick boats on the crystal clear Gieranger fjord below.
After being trained to catch fish, Keiko was released off Iceland in July 2002, and swam to Norway, where he became so popular that he was moved to a more remote fjord for his own comfort.
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During the last Ice Age, glaciers moving south carved deep gullies in reddish granite, creating a series of parallel steep-sided mountains interspersed with finger lakes as well as one fjord well, a fjard, actually.
Its dazzling white marble roof is a walkable, tilted plane that slips into the Oslo fjord at the building's lowest point, rising from the harbor's edge as a series of angled, switchback surfaces to the structure's top.
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Devices as non-intrusive and intimate as Shine show how machines are learning how to work with us in the age of wearables, rather than the other way round, says Olof Schybergson, chief executive of Fjord, a design consultancy.
Over the next 10 years, as the inner workings of phones shrink and manufacturing costs drop, "You'll be able to put a thicker texture of design around the phone, " says Christian Lindholm, director of Fjord, a London-based strategic design consultancy.
About 40km north, the route curved around the coast of Baie-Sainte-Catherine and headed into the mouth of the Saguenay Fjord, a deep blue, cliff-walled fjord about 105km long, 4km wide and 270m deep that looked like it could have been lifted straight out of Norway.
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