WATCH: Ice giants from Greenland are drifting to the island of Newfoundland, Canada. Some see it as a boon, others as a stark illustration of the accelerated melting of the Arctic. Full story:
PURE ICE. Tour guide and former fisherman Barry Strickland steers his boat next to an iceberg off King's Point on July 5, 2019 in Newfoundland, Canada. Photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP
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 4 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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