Scoresby Sound

[ skawrz-bee ]

noun

1. a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.

Example Sentences

These fjords are very deep; the greatest depth 544 found by Ryder in Scoresby Sound was 300 fathoms, but there are certainly still greater depths; like the Norwegian fjords they have, however, probably all of them, a threshold or sill, with shallow water, near their mouths.

From Project Gutenberg

Much of the fresh evidence the Comer researchers turned up on their expeditions to Greenland’s Scoresby Sound supported this idea, suggesting that the Younger Dryas period featured summers that cooled down only modestly and winters that were savagely cold.

From New York Times

From the Barren Grounds north-west of Hudson Bay the Polar Eskimo followed the musk-ox, advanced due north to Ellesmere Land, then crossed to Greenland, and, still hunting the musk-ox, advanced along the north coast and down the east coast towards Scoresby Sound.

From Project Gutenberg

In an attempt to clinch her suzerainty, Denmark this summer is sending two ships to reconnoitre the east coast from Scoresby Sound to Danmark Harbor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Norwegians have quietly thought and quietly said for years that Eastern Greenland north of Scoresby Sound is Norwegian.

From Time Magazine Archive