Try Fitting That Into Your Glass…

Almost exactly a year ago, a 251-square-kilometer sheet of ice broke from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland and started slowly drifting into the open ocean. Now, a year later, satellite imagery reveals that the Petermann Ice Island—a Manhattan-sized chunk of that ice sheet—is now floating in Canadian waters and heading toward the fragmented coastline of Newfoundland.

Gene Patey captured this jarring image of a piece of the towering iceberg looming over the idyllic-looking hamlet of Goose Cove...