Jökull - 01.12.1961, Qupperneq 27

JUNE 1961
No significant observations available.
11 /0 h/s _/Jfgír reports a strip of drift ice
extencling' towards W ancl NW from position
6756/2115.
i7/<s The weather sliip Alfa at 6258/3635
sighted an iceberg!
28/6 m/s panney reported a big belt of drift
ice at 6730/2031 extending from SE to NW.
JULY 1961
The average clistance of drift ice from Cape
Straumnes was about 65 miles.
28/7 Boundary from 6515/3830 to 6530/3200
to 6515/3545 to 6540/3550 to 6630/3315 to
6640/3030 to 6710/2900 to 6700/2600 to 6730/
2340 to 6820/2230 to 6830/2100 to 6915/2230
to 6925/2220 to 6920/2140 to 6940/2030 to
7030/2000..
88/7 An airplane en route to Mestervig re-
ports the ice boundary 60—70 miles N of Cope
Straumnes. Cooncentration for the first 20 miles
s/io. then mostly unbroken coverage along the
22nd meridian to Cape Brewster. No ice near
Jan Mayen but a broad belt of ice along the
eastern coasts of Greenland extending to 1°
E.l. at 79° N.
AUGUST 1961
The average distance of tlie drift ice bound-
ary from Cape Straumnes was 80 miles with
nearest approach of 40 miles.
3/8 The boundary of drift ice: 6500/3900
to 6525/3720 to 6515/3600 to 6540/3440, thence
ice free to 6700/3030 from whence ice bouncl-
ary is running to 6740/2800 to 6800/2430 to
6830/2100. Many icebergs along the Greenland
coast within 5 miles distance.
5/8 Scattered fields of drift ice mostly along
the Greenland coast and within 30 miles
distance off shore. A system of belts and fielcls
off the NW-ern coasts of Iceland with a south-
eastern boundary running from 6650/2550 to
6730/2230.
7/8 From 6640/2800 to 6620/2640 to 6630/
2500 to 6650/2415 to 6725/2445 to 6700/2220
to 6830/2150'to 6900/2000.
24/8 Boundary roughly indicated from 6530/
3820 to 6540/3615 to 6600/3520 to 6545/3345
to 6625/3320 to 6700/3300 to 6720/3000 to
6800/2500 to 6830/2800 to 6850/2100.
31/s A bighted ice margin from 6750/2600
to 6850/2300 to 7000/2100.
JÖKULL
Þetta er 11. árgangur Jökuls. Eins og oft vill
verða með tímarit, eru fyrstu árgangar Jökuls
alveg eða því nær alveg þrotnir. Til leiðbein-
ingar fyrir þá, sem hafa hug á að eignast ritið
frá upphafi eða vantar einstök hefti, fer hér á
eftir skrá yfir árganga þá, sem útgefandi getur
látið í té og verð þeirra
1. árg. 1951 (prentuð 500 eint.) þrotinn
2. — 1952 ( - 500 - ) þrotinn
3. — 1953 ( - 500 - ) þrotinn
4. — 1954 ( - 500 - ) þrotinn
5. — 1955 ( - 700 - ) kr. 100.00
6. — 1956 ( - 700 - ) - 100.00
7. — 1957 ( - 700 - ) - 100.00
8. — 1958 ( - 700 - ) - 100.00
9. — 1959 ( - 700 - ) - 100.00
10. — 1960 ( - 700 - ) - 100.00
11. - 1961 ( - 700 - ) - 100.00
Félagið kaupir fúslega 1. til 4. hefti á kr.
100.00, ef einhverjir vildu selja. Fornbókasalar
eru sérstaklega beðnir að halda þessum heftum
til haga, ef þau verða á vegi þeirra.
Gjaldkeri félagsins, Sigurjón Rist vatnamæl-
ingamaður, pósthólf 40, Reykjavík, tekur við
pöntunum á fyrri árgöngum og sér um af-
greiðslu á þeim.
í stjórn Jöklarannsóknafélags íslands:
Jón Eyþórsson, form
Sigurður Þórarinsson, ritari
Sigurjón Rist, gjaldkeri
Árni Stefánsson
Trausti Einarsson.
SEPTEMBER 1961
Distance of drift ice boundary from Cape
Straumnes was 130 miles on Sept. 13.
i3/o A well defined ice boundary from 6530/
3745 to 6528/3730 to 6545/3600 to 6614/3441,
thence two miles off coast to Cape Jörgensen
to 6652/3345 to 6722/3200 to 6747/3140 to
6800/3000 to 6830/2600 to 6850/2440 to 6915/
2420 to 6920/2215 to 6938/2200 to 7000/2040
to 7030/2100 to 7100/2000 til 7130/2000.
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