Whale Sound

16:01 Nov 16, 2020
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English to Polish translations [PRO]
Science - Geography
English term or phrase: Whale Sound
Dzień dobry :) Tłumaczę książkę pt. "My Arctic Journal" autorstwa Josephine Peary opisującą XIX-wieczną ekspedycję na Grenlandię. Od razu zagwozdka: celem ich podróży jest Whale Sound leżąca w północno-zachodniej części Grenlandii. Szukam i szukam, ale nie mogę nigdzie znaleźć odpowiednio szczegółowej mapy Grenlandii w języku polskim. Pomożecie?

On June 6, 1891, the steam-whaler ''Kite,'' which was to bear the expedition of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences northward, set sail from the port of New-York, her destination being Whale Sound, on the northwest coast of Greenland, where it had been determined to pass the winter, preliminary to the long traverse of the inland ice which was to solve the question of the extension of Greenland in the direction of the Pole.
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In geography, a sound is a large sea or ocean inlet, deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord; or a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land (see also strait).

There is little consistency in the use of "sound" in English-language place names.

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