Jane Campion

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

New Zealander Director

Kate Christensen

My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.

American Novelist

Robert Powell

I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and Siberia is on my list - however, that may be a bridge too far.

British Actor

Fjord refers to a long, narrow deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, usually formed by a glacier.

Geographical Feature

Fjords are commonly associated with the geography of Scandinavian countries such as Norway and Iceland.

Scandinavian Landscapes

Fjords are often highlighted as must-see destinations in travel brochures, especially for cruises.

Tourist Destinations

 pretty crazy to get a rope cut without either person knowing it's like it's pretty much a worst-case scenario in climbing I mean we all were like whoa that's a pretty serious but so the real beauty of this type of trip is the deep water soloing which is a soul lying above the ocean and that's kind of what we were searching for is we like probed all these fjords we would like search

To Climb the World PIPE...

 it we've lost that baseline so the message is you know if we can protect places like this they will come back I worked in other parts of New Zealand on this story as well like fjord land which is this sort of shadowy lord of the rings' environment with mountains and tons of fresh water that pours into the

Brian Skerry: Ocean Soul...

 tree almost in this emerald green world that you're looking straight up but if you were looking horizontally it's it's there's no ambient light it's pretty dark there's another picture made in fjord land of some animals called sea pens which a reminiscent of the old quill pens but these are like a type of

Crucial Waters PIPE...

 You know, three-four kilos, incredible predators. But for me, the one species that screamed out pulsating life were jellyfish. And in the right months of the year, in the fjords they aggregate in incredible numbers to spawn. Smacks of jellyfish, that I just learnt a few years ago.

Photographing Our Seas:...

 Chile's Patagonia region here adventurers find bliss amongst the dramatic terrain that includes glaciers fjords and mountains the centrepiece of the park are the three granite towers that stand tall over the otherwise flat Patagonian play throughout the park the

Find Your Bliss in...

 you know at the edges of fjords it's cold it's dark it might be snowing brian scary has been an underwater photographer and explorer here at national geographic for more than two decades and then when i think the time is right i take a deep breath and i slide

The Secret Culture of...

 killed the Norse and, probably of greater importance, may have blocked access to the outer fjords, on which the Norse depended for seals at a critical time of the year. And then finally, the fifth item on my checklist is the political,

Why societies collapse PIPE...

 Dense forests and tall mountains made overland travel difficult, but long coastlines and numerous rivers, lakes, and fjords provided a viable alternative. The first canoes were simply hollowed out logs rowed with paddles.

What's so special about...

 this is dis fjord in Norway for several years a local dive operator has been offering tourists a unique encounter with wild killer whales

Diving with Killer...

 glacierized fjords are the loudest natural ocean environment that we've measured so far the sizzling of ice melt