Jökull - 01.12.1962, Qupperneq 38

ít/b Boundary from 6830/1923 to 6756/1937
thence roughly to 6700/2745 to 6635/2700 to
6630/2230 to 6610/2650 (70 miles to the WNW
of Cape Látrabjarg) to 6550/2650 to about
6600/2800.
2B/r, Coastal Guard ship Ægir 1800: The
margin of an ice belt is extending from 6626/
2544 to 6643/2502.
29/5 Many ice fields of 0.3 to 0.8 concentra-
tion scattered to the North and West of bound-
ary 6545/2620 to 6500/2530 o 6630/2500 to
6545/2400 to 6700/2200 to 6700/2530 to 6750/
2430 to 6730/2350 to 6730/2030 to 6930/1740
to 7000/1800. No ice between the last position
and Jan Mayen.
31/5 Ægir 0900 z: A continuous ice belt ob-
served frorn 6654/2319 to 6659/2211.
JUNE 1962
About the middle of the monlh the distance
of ice margin from Cape Straumnes was about
60 inilésí
J/o Ægir 1800 z: Frorn position 6759/2115
a continuous ice margin is extending 270° and
90° true as far as sighted.
2/o Ægir 0900 z: A compact ice margin ex-
tends from 6755/2135 to 6803/2008, thence
curving in northerly direction.
18/e The eastern limits of ice fields and
drift ice were extending roughly from 6510/
3710 to 6535/3400 to 6740/2730 to 6730/2500
to 6830/2130 to 7000/2000. The concentration
within the limits was 0.3 to 0.9 with many
leads and areas of open water.
JULY 1962
The average distance of slush limits fro?n
Cape Straumnes was about 75 miles iaith nearest
approach of 33 ?niles on the 27th.
2/7 Ice limits 6545/3645 to 6615/3200 to
6600/3130 to 6710/3030 to 6700/2800 to 6820/
2100 to 6900/2000 to 7000/2015.
10/7 Ice limits from 6730/2940 to 6800/2830
to 6800/2400 to 6915/2100. Concentration 0.4
to 0.8.
20/7 Scattered ice fields off the Greenland
Coasts, the nearest about 65 miles off Cape
Straumnes.
24/7 Tlie outer limits of drift ice from the
Greenland coasts roughly from 6610/3330 to
6700/3230 to 6700/2900 to 6630/2920 to 6615/
2730 to 6840/2100 to 7000/1830.
27/7 Eastern limits from 6630/2800 to 6700/
2630 to 6640/2500 to 6700/2345 to 6900/1730
to 7000/1630.
23/7 Ice limits froni about 6510/3500 to
6630/2840.
30/7 Frorn 6620/3100 to 6745/3145 to
6800/3130 to 6640/2800 to 6640/2700 to 6900/
1830 to 6900/1630 to 6940/1530 to 7020/1530.
AUGUST 1962
The average distance of ice limits from Cape
Straurnnes was about 70 miles with nearest ap-
proach of 40 miles at the begin of month.
s/8 Scattered ice fields and ice belts with
bights and big areas of open water in between.
The eastern limits are roughly from 6515/3830
to 6525/3715 to 6510/3600 to 6540/3040 to
6620/3040 to 6630/3200 to 6730/3145 to 6740/
SOOO’ to 6630/2630 to 6710/2200 to 6730/2200
to 6710/2400 to 6800/2300 to 6950/1600.
7/s Eastern limits of belts and blocks from
6630/2900 to 6630/2530 to 6925/2000 to 6845/
2010 to 6830/1900 to 6900/1825.
47/8 Lirnits from 6630/2815 to 6700/2700 to
6710/2500 to 6740/2300.
2s/8 Only a small belt of drift ice remains
along the coasts of Greenland south of Scores-
bysund.
30/8 Limits of brash and block from 6846/
2323 to 6800/2430 to 6710/3100 to 6710/3230
to 6620/3400 to 6500/3900.
SEPTEMBER 1962
The average distance of drift ice from Cape
Straumnes was about 90 miles with nearest
approacli of 30 ?niles.
1219 Ice boundary from 6934/2000 to 6915/
2150. An other ice field was observed at 6735/
2400 to 6726/2420 to 6704/2430 to 6708/2500
to 6720/2515 to 6754/2600. Ice floe (brash)
two miles wide (due W of Cape Straumnes)
at 6624/2425 to 6624/2640.
18/9 Ice limits off the Greenland coasts were
observed from 7000/2015 to 6915/2140 to 6825/
2430 to 6803/2715 to 6723/3120 to 6615/3340
to 6530/3540 to 6512/3710. Icebergs (60 m and
below): 6618/3320, 6630/2345, numerous at
6730/3035.
2B/o From “Clipper 121”: A very big ice-
berg sighted at 6540/3110.
20/9 A big iceberg (the same one?) is re-
ported at 6445/3009.
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