• The Arctic Icecap
    • It is more than three kilometers deep and covers an area over 600,000 square miles
    • Many icebergs are over 15,000 years old and are the result of snow accumulation which, over the years, forms glacial ice
  • 85 percent of the world’s fresh water is frozen in the Polar Icecaps
  • North Atlantic icebergs come from about 100 glaciers in Greenland and are carried south in the Labrador Current
  • 1,200 to 1,400 icebergs migrate through Iceberg Alley each year in spring and early summer and can weigh up to several million tons
  • Migrating past Newfoundland, icebergs naturally melt on the Grand Banks as they meet the warmer water from the Gulf Stream