Take a look out the window, honey. Something big’s just turned up!

gest one I have ever seen around here,’ said Ferryland mayor Aidan Kavanagh. ‘It’s a huge iceberg and it’s in so close that people can get a good photograph of it.’

The iceberg was formed when a chunk of ice up to 10,000 years old broke off a glacier in the Arctic.

Large numbers of icebergs drift south into Iceberg Alley each year, although they are often locked into sea ice in the Arctic until late spring or early summer.

Most float past the coast but because of its size this one appears to have become grounded in the shallow water, Mr Kavanagh said. This is good news for the town’s tour operators, who are busy preparing for a further influx of visitors.

Barry Rogers, a skipper at Iceberg Quest Ocean Tours, said business is booming because of the arrival.

‘When they come in along the shoreline, and go grounded, we are very happy about that,’ he said.

As many as 616 icebergs have moved into the shipping lanes so far this year, compared with 687 in the whole of 2016. The increase in numbers has been blamed on strong anti-clockwise winds and the effects of global warming, which have combined to break up the Greenland ice sheet at a faster rate than normal.

Icebergs are a common sight around Newfoundland. The ice is very pure, not salty and safe to consume, so and the locals even use chunks to make their own spirits – iceberg vodka, iceberg gin and iceberg rum – as well as iceberg beer.

The average estimated weight for a Newfoundland iceberg is 100,000 to 200,000 tons – the size of a cube 15- storeys high. The largest one ever recorded was found in 1882 near Baffin Island, Canada.

It was more than eight miles long and almost four miles wide.

The best time to spot the icebergs in the area is during spring and early summer, with tourists flocking to take boat tours and rent kayaks to get a close look.

They are not the only attraction – thousands of humpback whales and millions of seabirds also migrate north through Iceberg Alley at that time of year.

Towering over a remote coastal town, this spectacular iceberg has become an instant tourist attraction.

it even caused traffic jams as hundreds of photographers, amateur and professional, rushed to the shore to get a close look.

The giant mountain of ice, glistening powdery blue in the spring sunshine, appeared off the east coast of newfoundland over the easter weekend.

At 150ft high, the iceberg is more than 50ft taller than the one that struck the Titanic 400 miles south of the Canadian island in 1912. And as nine- tenths of an iceberg is normally below water, it means that at its deepest this monster stretches for some 1,500ft below the chilly waters of the north Atlantic.

it is dominating the skyline along the Southern Shore highway just outside the port of Ferryland.

The iceberg is one of the first of the season to float towards shore from iceberg Alley, as the stretch of ocean from newfoundland to Labrador on the Canadian mainland is known. ‘it’s the big-