What is the most northen point you can drive to from southern Quebec, like Montreal. Google maps doesn’t seem to help much. I want to go see icebergs, but flying is not an option. Any help would be appreciated.
Unless you go way up north into James Bay or Hudson Bay, you are not going to see any icebergs. Even there, you won’t really see icebergs as much as you would see ice floes and ice jams.
Icebergs are created when a large chunk of ice breaks off a glacier or ice shelf and starts floating away on open water. The best place to see these near Quebec would probably be in the North Atlantic, off the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland.
The West Greenland ocean current takes any icebergs that fall off their coast and pushes them into Baffin Bay, or down south into the Labrador currents. Some will make it into the North Atlantic shipping lanes, which has caused problems for many ships, the most famous one being the Titanic, which was sunk by an iceberg just a bit south east of Newfoundland.
If "flying is not an option", you could take the Via Rail train to New Brunswick or Nova Scotia, and then either drive or take a boat tour from there.
Instead, go to Newfoundland, in the spring, for icebergs. The north east coast of the island, north of the capital city, St John’s. In May and June there are hundreds of bergs flowing down the east coast of NFLD.
The Hudson Bay coast of Quebec isn’t good for icebergs, at any time of the year. Pan ice.
Jim b. Toronto.
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Unless you go way up north into James Bay or Hudson Bay, you are not going to see any icebergs. Even there, you won’t really see icebergs as much as you would see ice floes and ice jams.
Icebergs are created when a large chunk of ice breaks off a glacier or ice shelf and starts floating away on open water. The best place to see these near Quebec would probably be in the North Atlantic, off the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland.
The West Greenland ocean current takes any icebergs that fall off their coast and pushes them into Baffin Bay, or down south into the Labrador currents. Some will make it into the North Atlantic shipping lanes, which has caused problems for many ships, the most famous one being the Titanic, which was sunk by an iceberg just a bit south east of Newfoundland.
If "flying is not an option", you could take the Via Rail train to New Brunswick or Nova Scotia, and then either drive or take a boat tour from there.
References :
http://www.canada-photos.com/iceberg-watching-boat-tour-newfoundland-canada-909-pictures.htm