Situated 10 kilometres (6 miles) northeast of St. John’s, Middle Cove is a popular destination for tourists and was designated a Provincial Park in 1979. The icebergs that reach the east coast of Newfoundland probably calved from a glacier more than a year before. They often spend a year or more in cold arctic bays melting slowly (or not at all in winter) until eventually passing through the Davis Strait and into the Labrador current. Rarely do icebergs last more than one year south of this point. The glacial ice that icebergs are made of may be more that 15,000 years old!