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“Ice Age Starting? Largest Iceberg Cluster in Five Years Sighted Off Labrador”
by The Globe & Mail   
June 21st, 2013
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The largest iceberg cluster seen in recent years is drifting south off Labrador near the Strait of Belle Isle through transatlantic shipping routes, says the coast guard.

Peter Veber, Atlantic superintendent of ice operations, said there are about 250 icebergs within a 100 kilometre radius of Belle Isle off Labrador.

“The shipping that is going through there are reporting numerous bergs,” he said Thursday in an interview. “We have a ship operating up on the Labrador coast and likewise our own people are saying that they’re seeing more now than we’ve seen for years up there.”

In all, the coast guard reports that the numbers are three to four times what has been recorded in the last five years.

Mr. Veber said the icy concentration includes everything from smaller “growlers” that hiss and groan as they melt, to bergy bits and towering white-blue sculptures carved by the sea. He traces it to glaciers that creep over the surface of Greenland and eventually snap into the sea.

“The lower, flatter ones that are large, they typically indicate they could have come from the Petermann Glacier on the Greenland coast. There was a significant calving that took place in 2010 and 2012.

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