壯觀! 加拿大小鎮迎來今春第一座大冰山!

Nature photographers have flocked to a small town in Eastern Canada after a huge iceberg drifted just off the coast.

日前，在一座巨大的冰山飄移至加拿大東部一個小鎮的海岸之後，採風攝影師們蜂擁而至。

The towering iceberg floated into waters just next to Ferryland, Newfoundland, causing bumper-to-bumper traffic as tourists try to get a glimpse of it.

這座高聳的冰山就漂浮在紐芬蘭費裏蘭附近的海域，大批遊客慕名前來只爲目睹它的風采，導致交通一度堵塞。

The area is known as "iceberg alley" due to the arctic blocks that float down every spring.

由於北極的冰塊每年春天都會漂過來，所以這個地方也因此得名“冰山巷”。

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This particularly huge one is expected to linger off the coast for some time because it looks grounded, Ferryland Mayor Adrian Kavanagh told CTV.

費裏蘭鎮長阿德里安·卡瓦納在接受加拿大電視臺採訪時表示，這座特別巨大的冰山有望在此逗留一段時間，因爲它看起來好像“擱淺”了。

"It's a huge iceberg and it's in so close that people can get a good photograph of it," he said. "It's the biggest one I ever seen around here."

他說道：“這座冰山如此巨大又靠近小鎮，遊人這次可以盡情地拍照了。這是我在這裏見過的最大的冰山。”

Canadian press reported that there had already been more icebergs than normal – with 616 already having moved into the North Atlantic shipping lanes compared to 687 by the late-September season's end last year.

加拿大通訊社報道稱，今年的冰山較以往有了明顯的增加--目前爲止已有616座冰山進入了北大西洋航道。要知道，去年九月底冰山季結束時總共纔有687座冰山。

Experts said it could be because of uncommonly strong winds and possibly global warming.

專家認爲，這可能是由於罕見的強風而造成的，並與全球變暖有關。