Iceberg Alley is a famous stretch of ocean that runs along the eastern coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, where thousands of icebergs drift south each year. These icebergs break off from glaciers in Greenland, riding the Labrador Current down into the North Atlantic. The iceberg that sank the Titanic in 1912 likely travelled through this very stretch of water.
Icebergs in Iceberg Alley, originate from glaciers in Greenland often enter the North Atlantic Ocean. The process is as follows; Snow accumulates on land over thousands of years, It compresses into glacial ice, Glaciers move slowly toward the sea, once at the coast, chunks break off (calving), forming icebergs. The survival time of an iceberg depends on its: size, location, water temperature, ocean currents, and air temperature. But it can take from a few weeks for smaller icebergs to several months to medium size icebergs up to 5 or 10 years for the large Antartica Icebergs of which some drift for thousands of kilometres. One of the largest record iceberg ever recorded was 5800 sq kilometers ( from Antartica before breaking up in smaller pieces in the South Atlantic Ocean (2017)
