Ahoy! Attack of the Icebergs
Crikey! Did you see this? From what I understand, a mondo iceberg four times the size of Manhattan broke into pieces off the coast of Greenland last year, and now nearly a year later they are seeing it appear off the 'iceberg alley' shores of Newfoundland!
The top photo is a slice of ice that hit Newfoundland's Goose Cove temporarily blocking the harbor until it broke and melted a bit.
That largest iceberg piece? They call it 'Petermann's Ice Island' which NASA has been watching and it has yet to hit the shores. Pretty surreal, huh?! I am continually fascinated by the mighty nature and beauty of icebergs! (See previous post) You can see a video clip for the magnitude of Petermann's Ice Island here.
(via @sophistimom twitter - sophistimom)
top photo - Gene Patey // bottom photo - Jeff Schmaltz for NASA
71 comments:
Whoah that's crazy.
Awesome picture tho.
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That is incredible!!
Whoa. That's incredible! It's so beautiful and scary all at once!
I saw the top photo earlier today and was blown away. My boyfriend is from Newfoundland, but I have only been at Christmas time. This summer I am really having pangs to go, the icebergs, the whales, the hiking. It's an amazing place (yes in the winter too), and I'm dying to see it in the summer. Thanks for posting this! I was happy to check it out again :)
both beautiful and a little terrifying! Very interesting all the same.
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Ahh!! That's crazy, but also so, so cool!
Amazing! I showed my atmospheric sciences loving husband right away :)
Wow! Thanks for passing this on, so awesome.
Wow! I can't help but think things like this occur in nature as a reminder of who's in charge. So beautiful and humbling.
Woah! Mother nature never ceases to amaze!
beautiful. thanks for sharing that
Whoah! That's very cool. Glaciers are so majestic.
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Scary but beautiful blog. Makes you realize how nature can over come us. This is Munir over here at Focus. Congrats on being blog of Note:)
OH MY GOD! How'd it feel to actually see it like that? I wish I could see. The picture looks great!! SuperLike.
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Congrats on being listed into Blogs of Note! A Great blog really.
That's amazing. So many would look at that and deny a sense of the problems facing us today. Yet here sits a white beacon of things to come. Perhaps we need to get the message accross?
oh wow! look at that 'ice-land'! =)
amazing!
That is amazing! That reminds me of a blog post Alice from Quaint Living posted about this art piece in Oxford: http://www.quaintliving.com/2011/07/gabby-oconnor-what-lies-beneath-the-return/
I'm so pleased to have discovered Black Eiffel. I've been extremely focused on icebergs this summer as a result of finally reading Jules Verne's The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (highly recommended). I'm looking forward to sharing this with my wife (asleep at the moment) and daughter (currently in camp in Maine). Thank you. Curtis Roberts
Now THAT is pretty cool!!
Nature is amazing!
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It IS surreal. First time looking at the picture, I thought it was photoshopped. Still cannot believe the sight!
Wow! I can't help but think things like this occur in nature as a reminder of who's in charge. So beautiful and humbling.
both beautiful and a little terrifying! Very interesting all the same.
This is awesome!
I've been reading about the huge icebergs for some time now. The largest one has valleys in it! It's like a floating island. Should we be a bit concerned that there seem to be more floating icebergs?
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Woah!!!
Woah!! nature is truly amazing.
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Wow I love that ice formation.
Nice blog!
I saw this on Yahoo News yesterday. I'm blown away! It's breathtakingly beautiful, but I'm sure also scary to see something that large heading your way!
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Amazing! What a great picture!
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Great story... I love it, and the pictures make it all the better!
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Its hard to beleive that something so picturesque can be so terrifying
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Hi there,
To me the first pic is the most impressive one.
Iceberg are fascinating.
But somehow, I still prefer the sand and rocks from the warms tropics, where I live.
Have a good day.
Whoah that's scary
hard to belief indeed.
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and really it just looks like a big piece of photoshopped foam!
Amazing! It would look really cool if the Iceberg was sculpted into something.
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awesome...nice photography
hard to believe,but very nice photos...
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followed you here on blogs of note. nice blog. I really love the first photo of the iceberg. (and it took me too long to spell iceberg because around here...berg is spelled bergh. (Lindbergh)
Enjoyed the story. Thanks for sharing.
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Amazing!
Im in awe! Love it!
Those pictures are amazing! Thank goodness the Titanic is no where to be seen! Keep up the awesome blog!
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Very interesting .. but nice picture
Wow, that is incredible!
I find nature and everything to do with nature interesting, this is beautiful!
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Amazing! Thanks for posting!
Fantastic post.
Amazing! Thanks for posting!
The world is changing. Wow(like worried wow)!
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One could easily assume this picture has been photoshopped to propogate the expansion of the slumbering sovjet union, look at those bright big roses in the middle of the picture forming a great star marking the rebirth of this evil nation. Surely putin has a way in this.
Holy crap - that doesn't even look real. How frightening for our planet...
Wow! That's unreal! Wish I could see it in person!
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Very cool to see you post about Newfoundland.
*hi* from Newfoundland, Canada. We love our icebergs!!
So wonderful to see soooo large iceberg just along the coast!!!
very nice
hmm... global warming much?
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Awesome Icebergs pictures. I think it's not a attack on it.
title made me laugh, ty for this post :P
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