"Zhijindong Hotel Discount" Newfoundland, Canada floated the first iceberg today.

A huge iceberg with a height of 46 meters suddenly visited the south bank of Newfoundland, Canada, and local residents went to the seaside to see the mountains.

Close observation of the charm of this behemoth soon made the local reputation famous, and many tourists who wanted to take photos with the iceberg came here. However, the local people have long been used to this strange scenery. Watching icebergs has always been one of the key tourism projects in Newfoundland, and local tourism companies will take tourists to watch icebergs at close range by boat. The south bank of Newfoundland is also called Iceberg Hutong because of frequent visits by Icebergs every spring for tens of thousands of years.

According to preliminary estimates, this huge glacier is as high as 46 meters, and this is only the part above the water surface, and there will be a larger volume hidden underwater.

On Easter weekend, some photographers flocked here, causing serious traffic congestion in the local area.

According to foreign media reports, the huge iceberg floating recently is the first sea tourist seen by local people this year. It is 46 meters above the water, higher than the iceberg that sank the Titanic in 19 12. Local residents think this is the largest iceberg they have ever seen, and it has hardly moved since it drifted to the local area on April 16.

Overlooking a huge iceberg

Recently, more and more icebergs have drifted into the strait. Canadian News Agency reported that 6 16 icebergs had drifted to the North Atlantic Strait, while in the first nine months of 20 16, only 687 icebergs entered the Strait. Michael mann, director of the Center for Earth System Science at Pennsylvania State University, believes that the change of wind direction can explain this phenomenon. At the same time, climate change is also an important reason for the sharp increase of glacier drift.

The western part of Greenland

The ice sheet is a relic of the last ice age. At that time, glaciers as high as a mile existed not only in the waters near Canada, but also in the vast northern hemisphere. Glaciers began to melt in most areas about 10 thousand years ago, but in Greenland, the process is still accelerating. On April 17, 2008, the British Daily Mail reported that a new crack appeared in one of the largest glaciers in Greenland, which may lead to the cracking of the ice shelf. At the same time, a set of photos taken by NASA show that the Petermann Glacier in the northernmost part of the world is moving towards the sea along the northwest coast of Greenland, visiting hotels and then stopping on a huge floating glacier tongue. However, NASA believes that the ice shelf may not break because the streamline inside the ice shelf prevents new cracks and delays the growth of cracks.

Steffler Mitte, a researcher at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, believes that warm seawater melts glaciers from the bottom, so cracks appear.

At the beginning of April this year, it was reported that Greenland's glaciers and ice sheets had passed the critical point and the melted parts could not be recovered. Researchers predict that Greenland's shore ice will melt again 2 100 years ago, causing the sea level to rise by about 3.8 cm.