| ||Most of the icebergs drifting in Baffin Bay and the Labrador
Sea come from Greenland’s West coast. There are about 10.000 to
40.000 of them a year. Every spring and every summer, deep in
the fjords, the glaciers calve. This means that as they move
forward, the glaciers loosen blocks of ice because of the
movements of the sea swell and the tides. Iceberg that must be
more than 5m above the water to be worthy of the name (mountain
of ice) travel and where they end up depends on the currents and
winds. The biggest ones, with increasingly eroded shapes, will
take two or three years and perhaps even longer to get off the
coast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic. Some will even
cross the 40th parallel south. One of these icebergs caused one
of the biggest maritime disasters, the Titanic shipwreck, in
1912 that killed over 1.500 people. Greenland’s ice cap is the
second largest in the world after the Antarctic continent. It
was created by the accumulation of snow falling for over 100.000
years. It covers 82%