I'm curious, are you not including Finland because it has only one fjord, and your description says "fjords," or is that fjord not considered a real fjord?
I think you should also check out the Argentinian side of Tierra del Fuego and the surrounding islands. There are some bays that look very much like Fjords on Google Maps, though I don't know for sure.
The finnish fjord does not seem to be connected to the ocean. I am not sure that it counts. There are quite a few other countries that have glacier cut lakes, to add the finnish fjord, the others should be added as well.
As a Finn I can say that we are taught in school, that there are no fjords in Finland. This is a matter of definition, but I didn't even try Finland on this quiz. If someone asked the amount of them, I would say zero.
Indeed. As a native Danish speaker I was a bit confused at first. "Fjord" is a commonly used term meaning a narrow bay. There's no indication that they must be glacial, let alone deep. To a Dane there's plenty of fjords in (southern) Denmark, Sweden and northern Germany. I understand now that the word is used a bit differently in English.
Although I don't think that all the firths correspond to the definition of fjord being used here, and that some of them are just large river estuaries. Or am I wrong?
At least one Scottish fjord is called Ronas Voe - not a firth at all. There are a few voes in the Shetlands, although I don't know how many of them are fjords. It's a pretty good bet as well that some of the sea lochs in the Highlands and islands are also fjords.
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Can you please include the Faroe Islands? Denmark's mainland fjord is not recognized as such, but there is no doubt about the Faroe Islands. So Denmark should include both Greenland and Faroe Islands. :)
Denmark has waterways called fjords, but they are not formed by glaciers with steep slopes, so they are not technically fjords - they're more likely to be rias. (In the Danish language they do use the word fjord for shallow lagoons and waterways, but that's peculiar to Danish)
Argentina has fjords on the Isla de los Estados, which is not a disputed territory, being right off the coast of Tierra del Fuego. The wikipedia article on that island mentions fjords.
From the Wikipedia article on Isla de los Estados...
"The only settlement is the Puerto Parry Naval Station, located in a deep and narrow FJORD on the northern coast of the island. The naval station, established in 1978, is manned by a team of four marines on a 45-day rotation. They monitor environmental conservation and ship movements, and provide emergency assistance.[1]"
Only 54% got New Zealand, some of the most famous fjords in the world...I did a cruise that included Milford Sound and it was jaw-dropping! I returned and did an overnight boat trip in Doubtful Sound and I'll never forget the silence of it, even the Americans stopped talking.
Port Davey isn't actually a fjord contrary to popular belief. It's a Ria, or a flooded river valley. I always assumed Macquarie Harbour or Bathurst Harbour were fjords but none of Tasmania's glaciers ever reached the sea; however Port Davey is (or was) formed from a glacier-fed river.
Is there some reason fjords are only found at extreme northern and southern latitudes? Does it have something to do with sea ice? The spin of the Earth? Or is it just convention? I remember seeing some fjord-like things when I was going up the coast of Montenegro. Are those not fjords?
Nevermind, read the caveats and I guess there's the answer... caused by glacial erosion. So... are the inlets in the rest of Europe and elsewhere not caused by glaciers? Doesn't look like ice reached that far south in the last Ice Age but I imagine the coastline is considerably older than that.
Please fix the spelling of "try" in your instructions. That was the first thing I saw when opening this quiz, and it made me mad. And I have to infer it's been like that since you last updated this quiz.
Full marks here! Norway was the first obvious choice, but then by logic l stuck to all the Nordic countries (was surprised Finland - the land of a thousand lakes was excluded) then concentrated on the Artic and Antarctic circles (hence guessed Chile, Argentina and New Zealand). I was not surprised that UK has fjords (Scotland's firths) but then remembered that some of Ireland's coastline is jaggered like that of mainland Greece, and hence arrived at my final correct answer.
I live there and I've never heard anything about them.
There are also a lot of rias in the UK, which are flooded river valleys, where the original valley is NOT formed by glaciers.
At least one Scottish fjord is called Ronas Voe - not a firth at all. There are a few voes in the Shetlands, although I don't know how many of them are fjords. It's a pretty good bet as well that some of the sea lochs in the Highlands and islands are also fjords.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ria
"The only settlement is the Puerto Parry Naval Station, located in a deep and narrow FJORD on the northern coast of the island. The naval station, established in 1978, is manned by a team of four marines on a 45-day rotation. They monitor environmental conservation and ship movements, and provide emergency assistance.[1]"