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A giant iceberg has turned the small Canadian town of Ferryland into a tourist destination. With the beginning summer season Icebergs breaking off from the Arctic ice float toward the Canadian coast along “iceberg alley,” a traditional path along which winds and currents guide them. But this was the first time Canadians had seen such an ice giant!
A colossal iceberg is drifting off the coast of Newfoundland these days, surprising local residents and attracting tourists. The small town of Ferryland has turned into a place of tourist pilgrimage - everyone is interested in seeing the ice mountain with their own eyes.
This iceberg was the first of the season to sail to the shores of Newfoundland along “iceberg alley,” a waterway along which currents drive icebergs from the Arctic during the warm season. It caused an unprecedented stir: all the roads leading to Ferryland were clogged with traffic jams. Photographers, bloggers, tourists, journalists and ordinary curious people - everyone was in a hurry to look at the icy mass.
The current iceberg turned out to be a real giant! Its height is more than 45 meters. This means it is about a third larger than what the Titanic collided with in 1912. "This is the most big iceberg of those who sailed to our region in my memory,” says the mayor of Feriland, Aidar Kavanagh. “Plus, he swam very close to the shore, so it’s very convenient to photograph.”
According to the mayor of Ferryland, most icebergs that reach the shores of Newfoundland pass by the island. However, this one appears to be firmly aground. Usually the main part of the iceberg is hidden under water, and only a small tip, compared to its full size, is visible above the surface. Therefore, if an iceberg floats in shallow water, it has a huge chance of running aground - as apparently happened in this case.
The arrival of the iceberg is a great joy for local tour operators. “When icebergs run aground here, we are very happy about it!” - says one of them. This year promises to be a fruitful year for icebergs: 616 ice blocks have already been spotted on shipping routes in the “alley of icebergs” area since the beginning of the year. For comparison, for the whole of 2016 there were 687.
Scientists blame global warming for the increase in the number of icebergs off Canadian shores. Meanwhile, Canadians themselves are only too happy to see new attractions and even name them after them. alcoholic drinks. Thus, in Canadian stores you can already find vodka, gin, rum and even Iceberg beer.
Let's expose! Iceberg sailed to the village? December 31st, 2013
... this is “crazy photoshop”.
As they say, he will never come so close to the shore.
Schematically something like this:
ADF: although after the publication of the post I found a high resolution of the first photo http://media.zenfs.com/152/2011/07/28/001DSC03407_214744.jpg ( An impressive iceberg arrived in Newfoundland’s Goose Cove in mid-July. “Icebergs float in from Greenland,” said the photographer, Gene Patey. This one briefly blocked the town’s harbor before breaking apart and melting, “but the fishermen took their chances.”) and here the shadows are of course distributed slightly differently. Now I'm inclined to believe that the photo is real. But icebergs, of course, sail away from their birthplaces:
Glaciologists (specialists who study natural glaciers) discovered an ice floe with an area of about 140 square kilometers in satellite images.
In 2009, scientists discovered a giant iceberg in relative proximity to Australia, reports AFP.
A block of ice measuring 19 by 8 kilometers (ice area more area Hong Kong) was spotted approximately 1,700 kilometers south of the continent. The iceberg was discovered using satellite imagery from NASA and ESA and was named B17B. The current coordinates of the block are 48.8 south latitude and 107.5 east longitude.
Scientists believe that the ice probably broke off from the Ross Ice Shelf, whose total area is 487 thousand square kilometers. Initially, the area of the broken piece was about 400 square kilometers, but later it split into several smaller ones. According to researchers, it took about 10 years for the iceberg to float so far north.
It is emphasized that this event is extremely rare - researchers say that nothing like this has been recorded on satellite data over the past few decades. In addition, there are no records of icebergs of similar sizes in ship logs until the beginning of the last century. From this, scientists concluded that this could be a rare event that occurs approximately once every 100 years.
Just recently, near Australia (1,500 kilometers), scientists discovered a smaller block of ice—about 500 meters in length. It was then noted that this block also broke off from the Ross Glacier in 2001-2002.
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Illustration copyright Reuters Image caption Canada, April 16, 2017. Residents and visitors of the city of Ferryland admire the beautiful iceberg
A small town on the Canadian island of Newfoundland suddenly turned into a tourist attraction, all thanks to a beautiful iceberg - one of the first of the season.
Canadian broadcaster CBC News reports that on Easter weekend the highway leading to the town of Ferryland was crowded with cars as photographers - professional and amateur - came to photograph the floating ice mountain.
Illustration copyright ReutersThe area off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador is popularly known as Iceberg Alley due to huge amount ice blocks that drift from the Arctic every spring.
Often these icebergs are sandwiched sea ice This usually lasts until late spring or early summer, but it appears that this iceberg has settled on the ground and may remain in one place, Mayor Adrian Kavanagh suggested in an interview with The Canadian Press.
Illustration copyright Reuters
This fairly large iceberg has taken up residence just off the coast, providing a wonderful photo opportunity, the mayor said.
Most icebergs are usually hidden under water, so when they get close to the shore, icebergs often run aground.
Such a beautiful iceberg offshore is good news for tour operators, one entrepreneur told CBC Radio.
"Iceberg Alley" has already begun high season. Hundreds of icebergs have been reported drifting in Atlantic Ocean- much more than usual for this time of year.
Illustration copyright Reuters
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Welcome to the small Canadian village of Ferryland. Its population is less than 500 people. Until recently, this was probably all that could be said about this place. But recently, fate made the village the most popular and discussed place on the planet, sending a huge iceberg to its shores from the Arctic. So that you can better understand the scale of what happened, let’s just say that this iceberg is larger than the one that once sank the infamous Titanic.
Together with the 45-meter ice giant, tourists slowly began to arrive in the village to add stunning photographs to their Instagram. And if you take into account the fact that a huge block of ice is stuck in shallow water and will stay here for who knows how long, then we can assume that in the near future Ferryland will become a popular tourist destination for thousands of travelers and photographers. The only problem is that the village has never seen such a stir and is not at all adapted to the influx of guests. There are only 2 cafes here, which will not open until May. Local residents will have to try hard to make full use of this gift of fate and extract the maximum benefit from it.
A giant iceberg has turned the small Canadian town of Ferryland into a tourist destination.
As the summer season begins, icebergs break off from the Arctic ice fields and float toward the Canadian coast along “iceberg alley,” a traditional path along which winds and currents guide them.
But this was the first time Canadians had seen such an ice giant!
A colossal iceberg is drifting off the coast of Newfoundland these days, surprising local residents and attracting tourists. People flock to small town Ferryland see the ice mountain with your own eyes.
This iceberg was the first of the season to sail to the shores of Newfoundland along “iceberg alley,” a waterway along which currents drive icebergs from the Arctic during the warm season.
It caused an unprecedented stir: all the roads leading to Ferryland were clogged with traffic jams. Photographers, bloggers, tourists, journalists and ordinary curious people - everyone was in a hurry to look at the ice mass.
The current iceberg turned out to be a real giant! Its height is more than 45 meters. This means it is about a third larger than what the Titanic collided with in 1912.
“This is the largest iceberg that I can remember floating in our region,” says Feriland Mayor Aidar Kavanagh. “Plus, he swam very close to the shore, so he was very easy to photograph.”
According to the mayor of Ferryland, most icebergs that reach the shores of Newfoundland pass by the island. However, this one appears to be firmly aground.
Most often, part of the iceberg is hidden under water, and a small part of it, the tip, is visible above the surface. Therefore, if an iceberg floats in shallow water, it has a huge chance of running aground - as you can see and happened in this case.
The arrival of the iceberg is a great joy for local tour operators.
“When icebergs run aground here, we are very happy about it!” - says one of them. This year promises to be a fruitful year for icebergs: 616 ice blocks have already been spotted on shipping routes in the “alley of icebergs” area since the beginning of the year. For comparison, for the whole of 2016 there were 687.
Scientists believe that the reason for the increase in the number of icebergs off the Canadian coast is global warming.