Northern Europe cruise passenger numbers rose 30% to 443, 000, with Norwegian fjords voyages proving particularly popular.
There are some fjords in Norway where 90% of the fish have escaped from farms.
High precipitation and cold air combine to create huge glaciers that spill into numerous fjords.
The 40-minute journey passes by rocky mountains blanketed with snowy tips and tiny green islands peeking out of the fjords.
Waterfalls and fjords carve dramatic shapes along the shore, the Chugach mountain range studding the horizon with snow-covered peaks.
They speed into the breathtaking fjords of British Columbia, where the icy waters are more than a mile deep.
Stange was dismissed from his university post, the Vikings retired to the fjords.
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The two ships will spend this summer operating European cruise holidays to the Mediterranean, the Baltic and the Norwegian Fjords.
Rugged mountains, swamps, mossy dense rainforests, a long coastline, tiny market villages, volcanic fjords, rainforests and reefs, and truly wild parties.
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Our trip included hiking the Fjords, visiting an outdoor school, meeting and speaking to people about their love for the outdoors.
They would drain lakes in a region that is famous for its rugged beauty - a landscape of glaciers, ice-fields, mountains and fjords.
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The coast is characterised by cliffs, glacier-headed fjords and deep anchorages.
Over the coast range, up and down the shore, the evening was a pea souper, the mini-fjords at the mouths of the Navarro and Albion rivers glimpsed through gauze.
But the Geiranger-Trollstigen Route offers 106km of raw Norwegian nature, with an awe-inspiring collection of hairpin bends, glaciated valleys and emerald green fjords running north to south.
The captain proceeded in the fjords at very slow speed, barely moving forward, by lowering an anchor from the bow to a depth greater than the hull of the ship.
Stretching along British Columbia's island-dotted coastline, its marvels include ancient red cedar cathedrals (some of the trees are more than a thousand years old) and other towering trees, glacier-fed fjords and wooded islands.
Milford is the most accessible, with a paved road and visitor centre, but Fjordlands National Park comprises three million acres of fjords and virgin rainforest, much of which has seldom been witnessed by man.
The 68-mile route to the fishing town of Ullapool is a relatively recent addition to a landscape forged in the Ice Age, when melting glaciers gouged its long, deep valleys and seawater-filled lochs and fjords.
The chances are that on midsummer night in 2050, the dancers round the maypoles will be older, greyer and slower, and some of the people sailing the boats in the fjords will be brown even if the sun doesn't shine.
Myhrvold is of Nordic extraction, and he looks every bit the bearded, fair-haired Viking not so much the tall, ferocious kind who raped and pillaged as the impish, roly-poly kind who stayed home by the fjords trying to turn lead into gold.
It's still summer in Norway, which means the narrow, twisting roads along the fjords are claimed by classic American cars from the Forties, Fifties and Sixties: Buick Specials with chrome-toothed grilles and portholes, Cadillacs with jutting tail fins and Chevrolet Corvettes with massive V-8 engines.
It's still summer in Norway, which means the narrow, twisting roads around the fjords are claimed by classic American cars from the Forties, Fifties and Sixties: Buick Specials with chrome-toothed grilles and chrome portholes, Cadillacs with jutting tail fins and Chevrolet Corvettes with massive V-8 engines.
The Swedish government is funding research into the feasibility of using a wind-turbine driven oxygen pump in the Baltic, following studies carried out last year by the University of Gothenburg, which looked at the effect of pumping oxygen-rich surface water to the bottom of two Swedish fjords.
You won't find any fjords, and a view of the Northern Lights is unlikely, but this hip hotel does sit in the thick of sundry dining and drinking establishments, and within walking distance of funky Fremont, the Ballard Locks (one of Washington's top tourist attractions) and scenic Golden Gardens Park, which offers splendid views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains.
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