A massive island of ice the size of Manhattan that broke off Greenland's Petermann glacier continues its slow drift close to the coastlines of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The ice island -- I suppose it's too big to just be called an iceberg -- was four times the size of Manhattan when it broke off. It is now reported to be about 17 miles off the coast of Belle Island.
NASA has recently released photos of it from space.
On July 8, the Canadian Ice Service reported that PII-A was losing mass due to calving and melt. Although clouds partly obscure the satellite sensor’s view of the ice island in this image, it does appear to have shed some ice blocks around its fringes, especially off its northeastern corner and western side.
PII-A is about 27 kilometers (17 miles) east of Belle Isle. The ice island and the real island look like they are roughly the same size and even the same general shape.
The island poses an obvious hazard to shipping, to offshore oil rigs and to any global climate change deniers who might not see it coming because they have their heads stuck up their asses.