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This season could witness more icebergs in Newfoundland

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

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A Twillingate tourism operator is quite hopeful that this year, the tourism commercials of Newfoundland and Labrador won’t be the only place where he’ll get to see icebergs.


Chris Scott, owner and operator of Twillingate Adventure Tours explained that icebergs, some of which can easily draw international attention, improve island’s tourism outfits because everybody gets automatically thrilled when they hear about icebergs.


“It’s great for our town,” Scott told CBC News on Tuesday. “And don’t worry, if there’s an iceberg in Twillingate — you’re going to know about it.”


The iceberg season of Newfoundland normally starts in the spring and in the month of May and June, it reaches the peak. However, last year witnessed only one iceberg crossing the 48th parallel. It had cut across Newfoundland midway between Bonavista and St. John’s — said Department of Fisheries and Oceans research scientist Frédéric Cyr.


“This is a big change compared to, for example, to 2019, where more than 1,500 icebergs crossed that latitude,” Cyr said.


However, last year was not the first year the province witnessed one iceberg, Cyr said. As per DFO report, one iceberg in 2010 was spotted and only two in 2011, and even has two years on record when zero icebergs were reported — 1996 and 2006.

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