Aurlandsfjord is a fjord in Aurland, Vik and Lærdal in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is a 29-kilometer (18 mi) branch of Sognefjord; after 11 kilometers (6.8 mi), the Nærøyfjord branches from it. Flåm village sits at the inner end of the fjord, other villages along the fjord are Aurlandsvangen and Undredal.

Bonne Bay is a bay in Newfoundland, Canada. It is located on the western side of Newfoundland and separates Great Northern Peninsula from the rest of the island. It is a part of Gros Morne National Park. Bonne Bay has a population of about 7000 people. It is separated into two sections: Inner Bonne Bay and Outer Bonne Bay. Inner Bonne Bay consists of two arms, one wh...

College Fjord is a fjord located in the northern sector of Prince William Sound in the U.S. state of Alaska. The fjord contains five tidewater glaciers (glaciers that terminate in water), five large valley glaciers, and dozens of smaller glaciers, most named after renowned East Coast colleges (women's colleges for the NW side, and men's colleges for the SE side). Coll...

Doubtful Sound is a very large and naturally imposing fiord (despite its name) in Fiordland, in the far south west of New Zealand. It is located in the same region as the smaller but more famous and accessible Milford Sound. It took second place after said Fiord as New Zealand's most famous tourism destination. Unlike the more easily accessible Milford Sound, it is no...

Esefjorden is a fjord arm on the north side of the Sognefjord in the municipality of Balestrand in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The fjord is about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) long. On its south side lies the municipal centre of Balestrand. On the north side is the village of Dragsviki, which has ferry connections to Hella in Leikanger and to Vangsnes in Vik. The Tjugum ...

Eyjafjörður (Island Fjord) is the longest fjord in Iceland. It is located in the central north of the country, near the second most populous region of Iceland. The fjord is long and narrow, it measures 60 km from mouth to bottom. Its greatest width is 25 km between Siglunes and Gjögurtá at the fjord's mouth but for the greater part of its length i...

Fiordland National Park occupies the southwest corner of the South Island of New Zealand. It is the largest of the 14 national parks in New Zealand, with an area of 12,500 km², and a major part of the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site. The park is administered by the Department of Conservation. During the cooler past, glaciers carved many deep fiords, the most f...

The Geiranger fjord is a fjord in the Sunnmøre region in Norway. The small village of Geiranger is located at the end of the fjord where the Geirangelva river empties into it. The fjord is one of Norway's most visited tourist sites and has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, jointly with Nærøyfjord, since 2005, although this status is now ...

With a length of 179 km (111 mi), the Hardangerfjord in the county of Hordaland in Norway is the third largest fjord in the world and the second largest in Norway. The surrounding district is called Hardanger. The Hardangerfjord starts at the Atlantic Ocean just south of Bergen (SW Norway). Here the fjord penetrates in a north easterly direction until it meets the gra...

Hardangerfjord is the fourth longest fjord in the world, and the second longest fjord in Norway. It is located in Hordaland county in the Hardanger region. The fjord stretches 179 kilometres (111 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean into the mountainous interior of Norway along the Hardangervidda plateau. The innermost point of the fjord reaches the town of Odda. The Hardanger...

The Harding Icefield is an expansive icefield located in the Kenai Mountains of the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. It is also partially located in Kenai Fjords National Park. The 8.2-mile round trip Harding Icefield Trail is a strenuous and spectacular day hike. Starting on the valley floor, the trail winds through cottonwood and alder forests, passes though meadows fill...

Hornsund is a fjord on the western side of the southernmost tip of Spitsbergen island. The fjord's mouth faces west to the Greenland Sea, and is 12 km wide. The length is 30 kilometres, the mean depth is 90 metres, and the maximal depth is 260 metres. Hornsund cuts different geological formations, from the Precambrian to the west to the upper Mesozoic to the east, and...

Hvalfjörður ("whale fjord") is situated in the west of Iceland between Mosfellsbær and Akranes. The fjord is approximately 30 kilometres (19 miles) long and 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) wide. The origin of the name Hvalfjörður is uncertain. Certainly today there is no presence of whales in the fjord; while there is a whaling station in the fjord, w...

Ilulissat Icefjord is a fjord in western Greenland. Ilulissat Icefjord was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004. The best way to see the full extent of the Ilulissat Icefjord is to take a scenic flight over the area. It is also the only way to see the Ilulissat Glacier that feeds the Icefjord. It runs west 40 km (25 mi) from the Greenland ice sheet to Disko ...

Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord is a major fjord system in the NE Greenland National Park area, East Greenland. The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord has its mouth in the Foster Bay of the Greenland Sea, between Cape Mackenzie at the eastern end of Geographical Society Island and Cape Franklin, the southern end of the mainland's Gauss Peninsula; Bontekoe Island lies in the bay off ...