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Brendon Gould of Port aux Choix said he stands over six feet tall but the wall was more than three times his height in some places.
Gould shared photos showing the wall dwarfing his frame, with jagged ice chunks as large as a person seen scattered nearby.
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A lifelong resident of the small town on Newfoundlandsa国际传媒檚 Great Northern Peninsula, Gould said hesa国际传媒檇 never seen anything like it before.
He noticed the wall while driving about a week ago, seeing it stretched along a coastal point that hosts the communitysa国际传媒檚 historic lighthouse.
Gould said he had to get up close to really take in the massive scale of the ice, pushed ashore by strong winds.
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Brad Drummond of the Canadian Ice Service said the phenomenon is known to develop when strong winds blowing in one direction push ice onshore over an extended period of time.
Drummond said formations like this are more common in the spring when ice is more malleable and likely to break up into smaller boulders, and in areas with a gentle incline along the shore.
He said judging from photos, the build-up is unusually large sa国际传媒� though he said its size is unsurprising given the heavy winds that have battered the area this year.
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It could be dangerous to stand too close in case the unstable structure shifts and the large ice chunks fall, Drummond said, but otherwise risks are minimal and the formation could stick around into early summer, depending on how long it takes to melt.
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- By Holly McKenzie-Sutter in St. Johnsa国际传媒檚, N.L.
The Canadian Press
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