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Disko

British  
/ ˈdɪskəʊ /

noun

  1. an island in Davis Strait, off the W coast of Greenland: extensive coal deposits

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Over 35,000 cubic metres of ice calve from the glacier each year, and more icebergs spew into Disko Bay than anywhere else in the northern hemisphere.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022

Like the others, she felt hopeful that the show would help raise awareness about Denmark’s relationship with Greenland, and she said she felt permanently altered by her encounters with those spectacular icebergs in Disko Bay.

From New York Times • May 26, 2022

Written sources reported that the Norse routinely rowed up to 1500 kilometers to walrus migratory grounds near Disko Bay in western Greenland.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 10, 2016

The island, the largest in Greenland outside of Greenland itself, lies about thirty miles west of Ilulissat, across Disko Bay.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016

"You done all you contracted to do, Harve; and you done it 'baout's well as ef you'd been brought up—" Here Disko brought himself up.

From Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard