In recent years, Ken Pretty, a Canadian photographer from the town of Dildo, has captured stunning images of his country’s coastline, including whales and icebergs. However, one of his recent photographs has caught the eye on social media.

The image Pretty captured in the town of Harbor Grace, in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, showing a penis-shaped iceberg. According to Pretty, he was already expecting some repercussions, but he didn’t imagine the photos would go viral on the internet.

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“I knew they would get a lot of attention on social media, but I never imagined they would go viral,” says the photographer. Despite the humorous tone of the reactions, Pretty takes the opportunity to raise questions about environmental preservation and global warming, which is accelerating the melting of glaciers around the world. “Last year we saw a lot more icebergs than this year,” he reveals.

The Canadian Ice Service confirmed that in the week Pretty set the record, there were more than 200 icebergs in the area. Many tourists visit the country in search of such formations. However, those hoping to find the phallic iceberg described by Pretty will be disappointed, as the formation has already melted away and lost its most distinctive feature.

The unusual image of the iceberg is reminiscent of the current climate crisis. Recently, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned that sea levels were rising twice as fast as in the first decade of measurements (1993-2002) and hit a new record high last year. The UN agency also showed that glaciers are melting at an alarming rate and can no longer be conserved, as climate change indicators have reached record highs – a trend that is expected to consolidate by 2060.