It's formed by a glacier

Usage examples of fjord.

Once I turned, far down the path above Thunder Fjord, and Nils Esterling had not moved.

Gundbjorns Fjord, barring accidents, and whether or not they found Falconet was in the lap of the gods.

Independence Fjord and could get warmth and light again, Falconet insisted that they should keep camp for two days to give Adam a chance to recover.

Out of the deep forest, down from the mountains, up from rivers and fjords they believe that the magical creatures come: the hulders, the nisser, the fosse-grimmer, the nokker.

Flensburg fjord is a straight, narrowish passage of some three or four kilometres, between steep banks.

The seter itself was hidden by an outcropping of the fjell that plunged straight into the fjord and formed its eastern bank.

When the snowcat had leveled out and was crossing the last few feet of snow-covered dirt before the frozen fjord, he felt a tightening in his crotch.

French-twisted hair, and through the brown bitter smell of coffee I caught a quick scent of her shampoo, light and sunshiny and sharp, the way cloudberries on the fjord smell when the sun comes out after a quick summer rain, and I saw her clearly.

Danevirke forms a barrier across the narrowest part of south Slesvig, from the head of the Slie Fjord in the east to the meadows by the Trene and Rheide rivers in the west.

Once they were working together again, training in the fjord on the east coast as Beaumont had described, things would all sort themselves out again.

He kept seeing the flames and smoke, hearing the amazed voices around him when it had been learned that Beaumont was staying outside the fjord.

A letter from the Danish town of Aabenraa tells how the Halifax crashed in an orchard on the north bank of the Flensburg Fjord near Sonderborg.

The workers at the cryolite quarry have a sparkle in their eyes, the industrial tycoons that earn the dough have a sparkle in their eyes, the Greenlandic cleanup staff have a sparkle in their eyes, and the blue fjords of Greenland are full of reflections and flashes of sunshine.

Babies cried, mothers scolded, men shouted orders or talked from ship to ship with battle horns or six-foot lurs meant to carry sound across fjords or far out to sea.

To show his displeasure he chose the healthiest looking child from their group to send to Mother Ursuline at Rikin Fjord as an acolyte.