Fjord - Fjord A fjord (pronounced FEE-ord or fyord, SAMPA: ['fi:3:d] or ['faI3:d]) is a glacially overdeepened valley, usually narrow and steep-sided, extending below sea level and filled with salt water. Fjords are found in locations where current or past glaciation extended to sea level. A fjord is formed when a glacier (carving its typical U-shaped valley) meets the sea and melts. This leaves a narrow, steep sided valley into which the sea floods. The flood creates a narrow, deep lake (sometimes as deep as 1300m) connected to the sea. The terminal moraine pushed down the valley by the glacier is left underwater at the fjord's entrance, causing the water at the neck of the fjord to be shallower than the main body of the fjord behind it..
Flensburg Fjord - Flensburg Fjord Flensburg Fjord is a long estuary of the Baltic. At the inner side is the town of Flensburg, at the eastern shore Glücksburg.
Ambrosius Fjord - Ambrosius Fjord Ambrosius Fjord was a horse which lived on the Drakabygget farm, home of the Situationist Bauhaus. Fjord became a member of the Situationist Antinational.\n.
Sognefjorden - Sognefjorden Sognefjorden is the largest fjord in the world. It is situated in Sogn og Fjordane in Norway. It is 200 km long and 1,296 m deep..
Kangerlussuaq - Kangerlussuaq is a settlement in west Greenland at the head of a fjord of the same name. Kangerlussuaq is the Greenlandic word for 'Big Fjord' and is sometimes known by its Danish name of Sondre Stromfjord. Kangerlussuaq was also known as Bluie West Eight during its time as an American military base. History Permanent settlement of the site at the east end of Kangerlussuaq fjord commenced in 1941. Following the fall of Denmark to Germany in World War II, responsibility for the security of Greenland passed to the American military. Military leaders responded by building several bases in Greenland, the largest of which were Bluie West One in Narsassuaq in southern Greenland and Bluie West Eight at the Kangerlussuaq fjord. These two sites remain Greenland's best equipped airports. Kangerlussuaq became an.
Kotor - bay of Kotor ("Boka Kotorska") on the shores of the Adriatic sea is the southern-most fjord in Europe. External Links Kotor historical and tourist information Official Kotor page.
Krifast - of Krifast, where the most famous is the suspension bridge from Bergsøya to Gjemnes, with 108 m high towers and a span between them of 623 m. There is also a 933 m long pontoon bridge from Bergsøya to Aspøya, which is the only bridge of its kind bound to solid rock only on each end. It is built on 7 pontoons, floating over a 320 m deep fjord. The 5,1 km long tunnel goes under the fjord Freifjord. It is 134 meters below sea-level at the deepest, though the bottom 35 m is solid rock. A drive through the tunnel takes about 5 minutes. Because of the relatively steep climb there are three lanes at each end, but only two at the bottom. Krifast was decided built by the Storting.
Jan Janssonius - which replaced Hondius II (1613) Ref# Pama/Sagen: 98, page 43. Also made: “Episcopatum Stavangriensis, Bergensis et Asloiensis”Amsterdam (1636) – 1642Contemporary hand colored engraving, 40*49cm.The first map to show the Oslo fjord by name.This nice map shows southern Norway with the Stavanger bishopric and the adjoining area of the Bergen and Oslo bishoprics. Telemark=Terra Incognita. From a French edition signature DD, see Koeman Me 100A. (Ref: Ginsberg “Norvegia” page 10, “Scandia” no.47, Hoem page 89 illustrated)Ref# Pama/Sagen: 146, page 54..
Julius von Payer - knighthood. In 1877 he married the ex-wife of a banker from Frankfurt, Germany. they later had two children, Jules and Alice. From 1877-1879 he studied painting at the Städelsches Institut in Frankfurt / Main. From 1880-1882 he continued his study of art at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in München. From 1884-1890 he worked as a painter in Paris. In 1890 he divorced his wife, returned to Vienna and founded a painting school for ladies. In 1895 he planned a trip for painting to Franz-Josef-Fjord (Greenland). In 1912 he planned (at the age of seventy) an expedition in a submarine to the North Pole. He died in 1915. Bibliography Julius von Payer, "Die Österreich-Ungarische Nordpol Expedition in den Jahren 1869-1874" (Wien 1876) (The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition of 1869 to 1874",.
Ilulissat - Jacob's Harbour). In direct translation Ilulissat is the Greenlandic word for 'The Icebergs'. Ilulissat is Greenland's most popular tourist destination on account of its proximity to the picturesque Ilulissat Ice Fjord - tourism is now the town's principal industry. Ilulissat was the birthplace of celebrated polar explorer Knud Rasmussen and his childhood home in the centre of the settlement is now a museum dedicated to him. History Inuit settlements have existed in the area of the ice fjord for at least three thousand years. The abandoned settlement of Sermermiut two kilometres south of the modern town of Ilulissat was once amongst the largest settlements in Greenland with around 250 inhabitants. The modern town was founded in 1741 by missionary Danish Poul Egede for trader Jakob Severin who had an established a.
Hardanger - part of Norway, consisting of the municipalities Odda, Ullensvang, Eidfjord, Ulvik and Granvin. A fjord around which the landscape of Hardanger is centered A mountain plateau in Norway, Hardangervidda. A string instrument from Norway, also hardingfele. It is similar to a violin, but different enough that a violin repairman who works on one is likely to ruin it. It has eight strings; four are played like a violin, while the other four resonate sympathetically. It was used in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers to provide the main voice for the Rohirrim theme. A form of embroidery. Hardanger embroidery comes from the district of the same name. It consists of drawn thread embroidery in white on a coloured piece of Hardanger cloth..
HMS Sceptre - bulk of the 102nd Regiment and the artillery. The only opposition came from a brig, Anacondo, 18, and a privateer schooner, Atlas, 10, which were the only armed vessels in the anchorage. When they were attacked by Lieutenant Westphall and some rockets, the brig was abandoned and the schooner struck. The troops took possession of Portsmouth Island and Ocracoke Island without opposition. In 1815, Sceptre was decommissioned at Chatham. Her final years were spent in the Channel blockade of the French before she was finally broken up in 1821. It was to be nearly 100 years before a new Sceptre saw service. HMS Sceptre (1917-1926) The third HMS Sceptre (1917) was launched on April 13, 1917, in Glasgow. During sea trials she averaged nearly 36 knots in force 6 wind. In.
German battleship Bismarck - the British numerical superiority in battleships, Hitler ordered the Kriegsmarine to target allied merchant shipping. Bismarck set off on this mission on her maiden voyage, leaving port on 18 May 1941. Three days later, she was spotted by Allied reconnaissance while refueling in a Norwegian fjord and was soon acquired by the patroling British cruisers Norfolk and Suffolk. On 24 May 1941, accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, she was engaged in battle by the British battlecruiser HMS Hood and the newly commissioned battleship HMS Prince of Wales, which was still being worked up. It is believed that one of Bismarck's shells penetrated the relatively thin deck armor of Hood and struck a powder magazine, though alternate scenarios are available as to the cause of the cordite fire. Hood burned.
German battleship Tirpitz - forth. The threat was sufficient that in a very risky operation British midget submarines planted explosive charges beneath Tirpitz in September 1943. This succeeded in disabling Tirpitz effectively for the duration of World War II. Repaired, she was finally sunk in Tromso fjord on November 11, 1944 by Avro Lancasters of RAF 617 and 9 Squadrons equipped with the Barnes Wallis tallboy bombs..
Glücksburg - Glücksburg Glücksburg is a small town at the Flensburg Fjord, Germany, Baltic Sea. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Gros Morne National Park - Site due to its complex geology and remarkable scenery. It has a fresh water fjord which was carved out by glaciers. The water in the fjord is extremely pure and is assigned the highest purity rating available for natural bodies of water..
Fiordland - 12,120 square kilometres, making it the largest national park in New Zealand and one of the largest in the world. The name Fiordland comes from a corruption of the Norwegian word fjord. Fiordland features a number of fjords, of which Milford Sound is the best known. Situated within Fiordland are Browne Falls and Sutherland Falls which rank among the tallest waterfalls in the world..
Flensburg - well as on the Danish border. The population is about 85,000 inhabitants. Flensburg was founded in the 13th century at the innermost tip of the Flensburg Fjord and began to rise after the decline of the Hanseatic League. Between 1460 and 1864 it was one of the major ports of the Danish monarchy. In the German-Danish War (1864) it was captured by Prussia. There is still a large Danish community living in Flensburg. The Danish name of the town is Flensborg. In the Second World War the town remained virtually undamaged. Admiral Karl Doenitz fled here in 1945 to escape the Allied troops, but was captured at last in Flensburg..
Eyjafjörður - Eyjafjörður Eyjafjörður is the longest fjord in Iceland, located in the northen part of the island. It gets the name, that literally means islands fjord, from the two populated islands located in the fjord, Hrísey and Grímsey. The town of Akureyri is located in Eyjafjörður, as well as Dalvík, Grenivík, Hauganes, Árskógsströnd and Ólafsfjörður that are all fishing villages with around 1000 inhabitants..
USS O-12 (SS-73) - conversion by the Philadelphia Navy Yard for use on the Sir Hubert Wilkins Arctic Expedition of geophysical investigation. After use by Lake and Dannenhower, Inc., of Bridgeport, Connecticut for the Wilkins-Ellsworth Arctic Expedition, during which the submarine bore the name Nautilus, O-12 was returned to the Navy Department. She was scuttled 20 November 1931 in a Norwegian fjord..
