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===Extreme fjords=== The longest fjords in the world are: # [[Nansen Sound]]/[[Greely Fiord]]/[[Tanquary Fiord]] in Canada—{{convert|420|km|abbr=on|0}} <ref>{{cite journal |author1=Ford, Wm. L. |url=https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66515 |title=On The Oceanography Of The Nansen Sound Fiord System |author2=Hattersley-Smith, G. |journal=Arctic |publisher=Arctic Institute of North America |year=1965 |volume=18 |issue=3 |page=159|doi=10.14430/arctic3465 }}</ref> # [[Chatham Strait]]/[[Lynn Canal]] in United States—{{Convert|403|km|mi|abbr=on}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Martin |first1=Lawrence |last2=Williams |first2=F.E. |date=1924 |title=An Ice-Eroded Fiord: The Mode of Origin of Lynn Canal, Alaska. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/208300 |journal=Geographical Review |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=576–96 |doi=10.2307/208300 |jstor=208300|bibcode=1924GeoRv..14..576M }}</ref> # [[Scoresby Sund]] in Greenland—{{convert|382|km|abbr=on|0}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Archaeology and Environment in the Scoresby Sund Fjord |year=1991 |publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press |isbn=87-635-1208-4 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DaHyIC3DeEC&pg=PA7 |author1=Sandell, Hanne Tuborg |author2=Sandell, Birger }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-TI55urJYyEC&pg=PA227 |page=227 |title=Geomorphological Landscapes of the World |editor-last=Migoń |editor-first=Piotr |editor-link=Piotr Migoń |publisher=Springer |year=2010 |isbn=978-90-481-3054-2}}</ref> # [[Concepción Channel]]-Puerto Simpson in Chile—{{Convert|245|km|mi|abbr=on}} # [[Sognefjord]] in Norway—{{convert|204|km|abbr=on|0}}<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |title=Norges sjøatlas : fra svenskegrensen til Sognefjorden |last=Øi |first=Ørnulf |publisher=Nautisk forlag i samarbeid med Statens kartverk, Norges sjøkartverk |year=1987 |isbn=8290335024 |location=Oslo |pages=225, 244}}</ref> # [[Independence Fjord]] in Greenland—{{convert|200|km|abbr=on|0}} # [[Matochkin Shar]], Novaya Zemlya, Russia—{{convert|125|km|abbr=on|0}} (a strait with a fjord structure)<ref>Alexander P. Lisitzin, ''Sea-Ice and Iceberg Sedimentation in the Ocean: Recent and Past'', p. 449.</ref> Deep fjords include: # [[Skelton Inlet]] in Antarctica—{{convert|1933|m|abbr=on|0}} # [[Sognefjord]] in Norway—{{convert|1308|m|abbr=on|0}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.snl.no/Sognefjorden |title=Sognefjorden |author=Store norske leksikon |author-link=Store norske leksikon |language=no |access-date=2010-09-04}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> (the mountains then rise to up to {{convert|1500|m|abbr=on|0}} and more, [[Hurrungane]] reaches {{convert|2400|m|abbr=on|0}})<ref>{{Cite book |title=Istider i Norge. Landskap formet av istidenes breer |last=Andersen |first=Bjørn G. |publisher=[[Universitetsforlaget]] |year=2000 |isbn=9788200451341 |location=Oslo |pages=30}}</ref> # [[Messier Channel]] in Tortel, Chile—{{convert|1358|m|abbr=on|0}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-11-26 |title=The Deepest Fjords in The World |url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-are-the-deepest-fjords-in-the-world.html |access-date=2022-05-26 |website=WorldAtlas |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=2017-09-09 |title=Gridded bathymetry of the Baker-Martinez fjord complex (Chile, 48°S) v1 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Gridded_bathymetry_of_the_Baker-Martinez_fjord_complex_Chile_48_S_v1/5285521/3 |journal=Marine Geoscience Data System|language=en |doi=10.6084/m9.figshare.5285521.v3 |last1=Piret |first1=Loic |last2=Bertrand |first2=Sebastien |last3=Vandekerkhove |first3=Elke |last4=Harada |first4=Naomi |last5=Moffat |first5=Carlos |last6=Rivera |first6=Andres |publisher=Figshare }}</ref> # [[Baker Channel]] in Tortel, Chile—{{convert|1251|m|abbr=on|0}}
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