The head of the hole is screened off from the fjord, and it is almost as if we were on a little mountain lake. |
Arfersiorfik Fjord, fjord in western Greenland, extending east from Davis Strait to the inland icecap. |
Waiting to jump from the boat, I gaze up at the snow-capped mountains surrounding the fjord. |
From a map you might think the place was swarming with fjords, but a real fjord is a deep U-shaped glacial valley that has become flooded. |
Shell crumbled before the onslaught, and the Brent Spar was taken off to a Norwegian fjord. |
All around us are towering, glowering peaks rising with perfect irregularity from the flat, green waters of the fjord. |