KING'S POINT, Canada - At dusk, tourists marvel at the sensational collapse of an iceberg at the end of its long journey from Greenland to Canada's east coast, which now has a front-row seat to the melting of the Arctic's ice.
– At dusk, tourists marvel at the sensational collapse of an iceberg at the end of its long journey from Greenland to Canada’s east coast, which now has a front-row seat to the melting of the Arctic’s ice.
Once a hub of cod fishing, the province now plays host to hordes of amateur photographers and tourists hoping to capture the epic ice melt for posterity. As winter ends, iceberg spotting begins. For the past four years, Strickland has taken visitors to bear witness to the death throes of these ice giants, which can measure dozens of meters in height and weigh hundreds of thousands of tons.
The villagers keep track of the icebergs on an interactive satellite tracking map put online by the provincial government. Last year, a total of 500,000 tourists visited Newfoundland and Labrador, a number roughly equivalent to the province’s total population.The tourism boom has helped offset the decline in the region’s traditional fishing industry, which is in crisis because of overfishing at the end of the last century.
In the village of Twillingate, employees at the Auk Island Winery — which makes its product from iceberg water and locally picked wild berries — have already seen that business can be unpredictable.
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