It couldn't even be labeled an Iceberg. This dazzling white ice island five kilometres long and alive with mountains, valleys, brooks, waterfalls, ponds and seals that drifted to Newfoundland is a chunk of the Petermann ice mass that unexpectedly snapped off a Greenland glacier last August. The "Berg" is approximately 3 miles long and 2.8 miles wide.
“I’ve seen icebergs before but this was unreal. It looked like something that shouldn’t be there,” the 52-year-old fisher said Monday from his home in Port Hope Simpson, Labrador.
Here is some video footage so you can better grasp how massive the Ice Island is...
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