Abstract
The regions with which this review is concerned are the deep fjord regions of Alaska and British Columbia in the northern hemisphere and Chile and New Zealand in the southern. The relative locations in latitude are shown in Fig. 1. The latitude zones for the Pacific fjords are: North America from 50° to 60°N, South America from 40° to 55°S and New Zealand from 45° to 47°S. (The Atlantic fjord regions are generally at higher latitudes, i.e. approximately 50° to 75°N for eastern Canada, 64° to 75°N for Greenland and 60° to 72°N for Norway.)
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Pickard, G.L., Stanton, B.R. (1980). Pacific Fjords - A Review of Their Water Characteristics. In: Freeland, H.J., Farmer, D.M., Levings, C.D. (eds) Fjord Oceanography. NATO Conference Series, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3105-6_1
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