Julianne P went to Twillingate to watch some icebergs and was luckier than Melissa McLean to sight some really beautiful icebergs on the coast. She posted the photos of the icebergs she saw in her Twitter posts.
In one of her twitter post, she says, “Windy but beautifully warm day in Twillingate.”
A boomerang shaped island, George Island, is located in the southeastern side of Groswater Bay on the northern coast of Labrador.
Melissa McLean from Ontario wanted to take a look at some icebergs and called Newfoundland and Labrador’s tourism department and checked an iceberg mapping website. Based on the information provided by the website and the department, she rented car and headed towards Twillingate.
But, to the surprise of McLean’s family, not iceberg waited for them in Twillingate.
Melissa told CBC reporter that the information provided by the website icebergfinder.com and information given by provincial tourism department was unreliable.
Although she and her family enjoyed their visit to Twillingate, she was disapointed by the wrong inofrmation.
If such sources are so unreliable, where to find the correct information?
I thought it were information age and anything can be found in the web.
Towing iceberg from the poles had been one of the dream human had since early time. But, it has never been fully successful.
I saw a nice piece of article about – The Many Failures and Few Successes of Zany Iceberg Towing Schemes – in The Atlantic.
Mark Brown wrote another article in Wired UK on how a building sized iceberg can be towed.
(Image source – http://www.3ds.com/icedream/)
If the provincial government hadn’t announced the halt, the Labrador caribou hunt would have begun on August 10. The provincial government has told that it wants to have a closer look at the George River before allowing the caribou hunt to start.
The halt was announced on Aug 2, 2011.
The annual caribou hunting in Labrador has been postponed because of the rate by which they are dying off.
Last year’s census of caribou in the George River showed that the numbers dropped by as much as 81 percent in 9-year from 2001 to 2010.
The population of the George River herd was 385,000 in 2001. The number reduced to 74,000 when counted in July of 2010.
Labrador ice
Nome, Alaska, May 1982 (from NOAA)
Jul 20, 2011 - A huge island of ice the size of Manhattan is drifting off the coast of Labrador, and it’s a glacial event that has scientists around the world abuzz.
(credit – CBC News)