Impenetrable forests, raging rivers, deep fiords and robust weather have helped to keep man at bay.

During the cooler past, glaciers carved many deep fiords, the most famous (and most visited) of which is Milford Sound.

Nachvak is a deep fiord in northern Labrador nearly 2 km wide and 20 km long.

The south and eastern end of the peninsula are mountainous, while the western end has a coastal plane in the northern half and deep fiords in the southern half.

Fiordland's steep mountains and deep fiords record the extensive ice age glaciation of this south-western corner of the South Island.

I noted that in the eastern cliffs was a deep fiord with a narrow entrance, in which floated several dozen ships.

Dozens of dragon-ships floated in the deep, narrow fiord between the cliffs, moored to iron rings in the ledge.

Thus we came down to the deep, narrow fiord in which floated the long dragon-ships of the Aesir.

Picturesque mountains, deep fiords and icy glaciers - this is New Zealand's South Island.

Erik sailed for those islands to try his luck, spent the next three years exploring much of the Greenland coast, and discovered good pastureland inside the deep fiords.