A towering ice wall has dramatically emerged near a small town on NewfoundlandB次元官网网址檚 northwest coast, with one resident likening it to a B次元官网网址淕ame of ThronesB次元官网网址� set.
Brendon Gould of Port aux Choix said he stands over six feet tall but the wall was more than three times his height in some places.
Gould shared photos showing the wall dwarfing his frame, with jagged ice chunks as large as a person seen scattered nearby.
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A lifelong resident of the small town on NewfoundlandB次元官网网址檚 Great Northern Peninsula, Gould said heB次元官网网址檇 never seen anything like it before.
He noticed the wall while driving about a week ago, seeing it stretched along a coastal point that hosts the communityB次元官网网址檚 historic lighthouse.
Gould said he had to get up close to really take in the massive scale of the ice, pushed ashore by strong winds.
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Brad Drummond of the Canadian Ice Service said the phenomenon is known to develop when strong winds blowing in one direction push ice onshore over an extended period of time.
Drummond said formations like this are more common in the spring when ice is more malleable and likely to break up into smaller boulders, and in areas with a gentle incline along the shore.
He said judging from photos, the build-up is unusually large B次元官网网址� though he said its size is unsurprising given the heavy winds that have battered the area this year.
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It could be dangerous to stand too close in case the unstable structure shifts and the large ice chunks fall, Drummond said, but otherwise risks are minimal and the formation could stick around into early summer, depending on how long it takes to melt.
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- By Holly McKenzie-Sutter in St. JohnB次元官网网址檚, N.L.
The Canadian Press
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