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Newfoundlander Mike Parsons has been catapulted into internet stardom after unwittingly photographing an iceberg that looks exactly like Batman.

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The berg is about the size of a small bungalow and was photographed in the waters near Mr. Parson’s hometown of Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland.

A software architect who spends the offseason in Round Lake, Ontario, Mr. Parsons initially did not see the resemblance to the Dark Knight.

“I didn’t make the Batman connection when I posted it to Facebook, and then the next day I saw it on Buzzfeed,” said Mr. Parsons, speaking by phone from his summer home in Little Bay Islands.

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The photo was originally posted to Growing Up in Newfoundland, a Facebook page filled with user-submitted photos of Canada’s 10th province. Mr. Parsons’ iceberg photos are among hundreds of images of moose hunting, cod fishing and rocky shorelines.

By Wednesday, the Batman photo had made the rounds of websites and newspapers the world over, including the New York Daily News, the Mirrorand the gossip site PerezHilton.com.

The berg, composed of ice that is likely more than 10,000 years old, was captured in its death throes. After drifting down from Greenland, the iceberg had just run aground and was beginning the violent process of breaking apart.