09/24/2026
“It was kind of surreal standing on the very edge of North America—the continent’s last land—and looking out on the North Atlantic Ocean, realizing there is nothing but ocean water between you and Ireland, the next closest piece of land, about 1,960 miles (3,154 kilometres) away. This rocky, windswept point of land is known as Cape Spear in southeastern Newfoundland.
It was early June when I was visiting Newfoundland’s St. John’s—North America’s most easterly city and one of its oldest surviving English settlements—when a resident writer friend offered to take me iceberg viewing a short distance from downtown, at a small bay beside Cape Spear Lighthouse National Historic Site. Cape Spear is considered among the world’s best places to see icebergs from shore. When you are watching an iceberg, you are actually looking at ancient history, as the glacial ice may be up to 15,000 years old.
And wow—what an amazing sight. Just offshore was an iceberg that looked like a massive floating ice cathedral, complete with an open arch in the middle. This particular slow-moving sculpture of nature had already become famous across Canada after receiving national media attention for its unique shape.”
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