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HUGE ICEBERG GROUNDED OFF NEWFOUNDLAND COAST NEAR VILLAGE OF FERRYLAND
April 17, 2017
Towering over the waves like an ice colossus, it dwarfs the remote Newfoundland town below. And this enormous iceberg, one of the first of the season to float into ‘iceberg alley,’ has turned the small town of Ferryland into a sudden tourist spot. Photographers, both amateur and professional, caused traffic jams along the Southern Shore highway over Easter weekend as hundreds jostled to see the hulking mountain of ice.
The area of Canada’s east coast by Newfoundland and Labrador is known as Iceberg Alley (pictured main) due to the large number of the 10,000-year-old glacial giants which drift down from the arctic each spring. And the iceberg which has taken up residence just outside Ferryland is thought to be about 150 ft high, more than 50 ft higher than the one which the Titanic struck in 1912.
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