The coast of Canada’s Newfoundland is commonly called “Iceberg Alley.” An iceberg is a large piece of ice floating in the ocean. Between May and July, hundreds of icebergs float through these waters. They break off from glaciers in the Arctic and float south. But one iceberg arrived a bit earlier than usual this year. It floated extremely close to the coast. It ran into ground underwater very near the small town of Ferryland. It happened on April 16, which was the Christian holiday of Easter. The iceberg is huge. Experts estimate it rises about 50 meters out of the water. They say it is close to the same size as the iceberg that the Titanic struck in 1912. Photographs and stories about the Ferryland iceberg quickly spread on the Internet and social media. The towering piece of ice made news around the world. Newspapers wrote stories about how to travel to Ferryland, a fishing village with a population of 500 people.
Title: Huge Iceberg Bringing Visitors to Small Canadian Village
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1823/canada_iceberg.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Huge Iceberg Bringing Visitors to Small Canadian Village' data-article-id='2340'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9083'>The coast of Canada’s Newfoundland is commonly called “Iceberg Alley.”</span> <span data-start-time='9083' data-end-time='15958'>An iceberg is a large piece of ice floating in the ocean.</span> <span data-start-time='15958' data-end-time='24021'>Between May and July, hundreds of icebergs float through these waters.</span> <span data-start-time='24021' data-end-time='30479'>They break off from glaciers in the Arctic and float south.</span> <span data-start-time='30479' data-end-time='37167'>But one iceberg arrived a bit earlier than usual this year.</span> <span data-start-time='37167' data-end-time='42167'>It floated extremely close to the coast.</span> <span data-start-time='42167' data-end-time='50229'>It ran into ground underwater very near the small town of Ferryland.</span> <span data-start-time='50229' data-end-time='58188'>It happened on April 16, which was the Christian holiday of Easter.</span> <span data-start-time='58188' data-end-time='61042'>The iceberg is huge.</span> <span data-start-time='61042' data-end-time='67333'>Experts estimate it rises about 50 meters out of the water.</span> <span data-start-time='67333' data-end-time='78271'>They say it is close to the same size as the iceberg that the Titanic struck in 1912.</span> <span data-start-time='78271' data-end-time='88229'>Photographs and stories about the Ferryland iceberg quickly spread on the Internet and social media.</span> <span data-start-time='88229' data-end-time='94333'>The towering piece of ice made news around the world.</span> <span data-start-time='94333' data-end-time='105521'>Newspapers wrote stories about how to travel to Ferryland, a fishing village with a population of 500 people.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img 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