How old are icebergs?
The icebergs that pass by the east coast of Newfoundland have usually calved from a glacier about a year or more before you spot them. They usually spend the year in frosty arctic bays melting slowly, if at all, until slipping through the Davis Strait and into the Labrador current. Unfortunately, once they head south, they rarely last more than one year. However, this does not mean that icebergs are roughly a year old – one must take into consideration the fact that the glacial ice that icebergs are made of may be more than 10,000 years old!
