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Fjords of Sweden (6 P) U. Fjords of the United Kingdom (2 C) This page was last edited on 16 December 2016, at 18:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Sognefjord in Norway, the longest fjord in Norway, [27] is a popular tourist attraction Eyjafjörður in north Iceland, Akureyri can be seen to the far right Killary Harbour, western Ireland New Zealand's Milford Sound Glacier in a fjord at Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska Tysfjorden in Norway north of the Arctic Circle is located in the ...
The Hudson River fjord in New York is recognized as the only true Fjord in the eastern coast of the United States [1] [2] Somes Sound , a fjard located within Acadia National Park , is often mistaken for being another fjord located along the eastern coast of the United States .
The two fjords, among the world's longest and deepest, are considered as archetypical fjord landscapes and among the most scenically outstanding anywhere. Their exceptional natural beauty is derived from their narrow and steep-sided crystalline rock walls that rise up to 1,400 m from the Norwegian Sea and extend 500 m below sea level.
Municipalities in Norway that have a coast: 279 Mainland coastline (with fjords and bays): 28,953 kilometers (17,991 mi) [ 5 ] Island coastline: 71,963 kilometers (44,716 mi) [ 5 ]
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Killary has for centuries been known as a fjord [4] [5] [2] - "the only fjord in Ireland" [6] or sometimes "one of 2–4 fjord-type inlets" on the island. [7] There has been argument in at least one peer-reviewed paper that it is in fact one of three glacial fjards (shallower than true fjords) in Ireland, the others being Lough Swilly and Carlingford Lough. [8]
Tasiilaq Fjord opens into the bay in the North Atlantic south of the wide mouth of Ammassalik Fjord. Ilulissat Icefjord , a UNESCO World Heritage Site . Aerial view of Isortoq Fjord (upper left).