A huge iceberg has sailed to the shores of Canada! How an iceberg turned a Canadian town into a tourist mecca Canadian iceberg.

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A small town on the Canadian island of Newfoundland suddenly turned into a tourist attraction and all thanks to the most beautiful - one of the first this season - iceberg.

Canadian broadcaster CBC News reports that on Easter weekend the track leading to the town of Ferryland was jammed with cars: photographers - professionals and amateurs - came to photograph the floating ice mountain.

The area off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador is popularly known as Iceberg Alley because of the huge amount of ice blocks that drift from the Arctic every spring.

Often these icebergs are squeezed sea ​​ice, this usually lasts until the end of spring or early summer, but it looks like this iceberg has settled on the ground and may stay in one place, Mayor Adrian Kavanagh suggested in an interview with The Canadian Press.

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This rather large iceberg "settled" near the coast, providing a great photo opportunity, the mayor said.

Most icebergs are usually hidden underwater, so as they approach the shore, the icebergs often run aground.

Such a beautiful iceberg offshore is good news for tour operators, said one of the entrepreneurs of CBC Radio.

Iceberg Alley has already started the high season. Hundreds of drifting icebergs are reported in Atlantic Ocean- much more than usual for this time of year.

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A giant iceberg has turned the small Canadian town of Ferryland into a place of pilgrimage for tourists.

With the start of the summer season, icebergs that break off from the Arctic ice fields float towards the Canadian coast along the "iceberg alley" - the traditional path along which they are led by winds and currents.

But Canadians saw such an ice giant for the first time!

A colossal iceberg is drifting off the coast of Newfoundland these days, surprising the locals and attracting tourists. People flock to the small town of Ferryland to see the ice mountain with their own eyes.

This iceberg was the first of the season to sail to the shores of Newfoundland along the Iceberg Alley - waterway, along which the current in the warm season drives icebergs from the Arctic.

It caused an unprecedented stir: all the roads leading to Ferryland were clogged with traffic jams. Photographers, bloggers, tourists, ordinary curious journalists - 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 that it is about a third larger than the one that the Titanic encountered in 1912.

“This is the biggest iceberg I have ever seen in our area,” said Fairyland Mayor Aidar Kavanagh. “Besides, he swam very close to the shore, so it is very convenient to photograph him.”

According to the mayor of Ferryland, most of the icebergs that come to the shores of Newfoundland pass by the island. However, this one seems to have run 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 swims 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!” one of them says. This year promises to be fruitful for icebergs: since the beginning of the year, 616 ice blocks have already been seen on the shipping lanes in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe "alley of icebergs". For comparison, for the whole of 2016 there were 687 of them.

Scientists believe that the reason for the increase in the number of icebergs off the Canadian coast is global warming.

A giant iceberg has turned the small Canadian town of Ferryland into a place of pilgrimage for tourists. As the summer season begins, icebergs that break away from the Arctic ice fields float towards the Canadian coast along the "iceberg alley" - the traditional path along which they are led by winds and currents. But Canadians saw such an ice giant for the first time!

A colossal iceberg is drifting off the coast of Newfoundland these days, surprising the locals and attracting tourists. The small town of Ferryland has become 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 the "iceberg alley" - a waterway along which icebergs from the Arctic are driven by the current during the warm season. It caused an unprecedented stir: all the roads leading to Ferryland were clogged with traffic jams. Photographers, bloggers, tourists, ordinary curious journalists - 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 that it is about a third larger than the one that the Titanic encountered in 1912. “This is the biggest iceberg I have ever seen in our area,” says Fairyland Mayor Aidar Kavanagh. “Besides, he swam very close to the shore, so it is very convenient to photograph him.”

According to the mayor of Ferryland, most of the icebergs that come to the shores of Newfoundland pass by the island. However, this one seems to have run aground. Usually the main part of the iceberg is hidden under water, and only a small tip is visible above the surface compared to the full size. Therefore, if an iceberg swims 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!” one of them says. This year promises to be fruitful for icebergs: since the beginning of the year, 616 ice blocks have already been seen on the shipping lanes in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe "alley of icebergs". For comparison, for the whole of 2016 there were 687 of them.

Scientists blame the increase in the number of icebergs off Canadian coasts on global warming. Meanwhile, the Canadians themselves are only too happy about new sights and even name them after them. alcoholic drinks. So, in Canadian stores you can already find vodka, gin, rum and even Iceberg beer.

Welcome to the small Canadian village of Ferryland. Its population is less than 500 people. Until recently, this is perhaps all that could be said about this place. But the other day, fate made the village the most popular and discussed place on the planet, sending a huge iceberg to its shores from the Arctic. To 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 pull up to the village to replenish their Instagram with a stunning photo. And given the fact that a huge block of ice is stuck in shallow water and will stay here for who knows how long, 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 rush and is not at all adapted to the influx of guests. There are only 2 cafes here, which will not open until May. For local residents you will have to try hard to make full use of this gift of fate and get the most out of it.

We expose! Iceberg sailed into the village? December 31st, 2013

... this is a "galeful photoshop".

As they say, he will never come so close to the shore.

Schematically like this:

ADF: although after the publication of the post I found a large 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 a little differently. Now I'm leaning towards the fact 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 on satellite images.

In 2009, scientists discovered a giant iceberg relatively close to Australia, according to AFP.

A block of ice measuring 19 by 8 kilometers (ice area more area Hong Kong) was seen at a distance of approximately 1,700 kilometers south of the continent. The iceberg was discovered using NASA and ESA satellite imagery 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 away from the Ross Ice Shelf, whose total area is 487,000 square kilometers. Initially, the area of ​​the breakaway piece was about 400 square kilometers, but later it split into several smaller ones. It took about 10 years to sail so far north near the iceberg, according to researchers.

It is emphasized that this event is extremely rare - the researchers say that nothing of the kind has been recorded on satellite data over the past few decades. In addition, there are no records of icebergs of similar size in ship logs until the beginning of the last century. From this, scientists concluded that we can talk about a rare event that occurs about once every 100 years.

More recently, not far from Australia (1500 kilometers), scientists discovered a smaller ice block - about 500 meters in length. Then it was noted that this block also broke away from the Ross Glacier in 2001-2002.

Let me remind you where we exposed photoshop: or, for example, is this and is it The original article is on the website InfoGlaz.rf Link to the article from which this copy is made -