Jökull - 01.12.1964, Blaðsíða 43

Thus the position of block and brash limits
seem to have been roughly from 6645/2400 to
6630/2000 in the period 17th to 25th January.
27/i Representative points of ice edge: 7145/
1015 to 7000/1250 to 6915/1500 to 6800/1850 to
6700/2300 to 6640/2500 to 6600/2640.
31/i As a continuation of the report of 27/i
the ice edge extends from 6547/2825 to 6525/
3528 to 6506/3715 to 6500/3810 to 6325/3900.
to 6152/4100.
FEBRUARY 1964
The distance of he main ice edge frorri Cape
Straumnes was about 75 niiles with nearest ap-
proach of 60 miles.
17/2 Representative points of ice edge: 6510/
3300 to 6535/3200 to 6600/3015 to 6700/2900
to 6730/2700 to 6830/1800 to 6830/1300 to
6900/1200 to 7000/1000 to 7100/0800.
2112 Ice edge off the Greenland coasts: 6200/
4130 to 6300/4050 to 6330/4010 to 6422/3950
to 6430/3755 to 6505/3740 to 6452/3645 to
6510/3530 to 6528/3420 to 6446/3345 to 6534/
3238 to 6548/2942 to 6645/2900.
2-t/2 Ice edge 6650/2600 to 6753/2130 to
6750/2120 to 6803/1930 to 6828/183.5 to 6828/
1255 to 6839/1225 to 6844/1124 to 7000/1333
to 7038/1333 to 7120/1200. Note the short and
broad ice tongue extending SE between Jan
Mayen and Iceland.
MARCH 1964
No ice was sightecl from he coasts or by ’ships
in Icelanclic waters. On tlie 12th, however, a
close ice edge (conc. 7/sj toas obserued 45 miles
off Cape Straumnes.
12/s The ice edge was observed at 6710/2535
to 6610/2510 to 6700/2440 to 6710/2340 to
6718/2340 to 6718/2322 to 6730/2300 to 6740/
2230.
APRIL 1964
No ice was sighted from the coast or by ships
in Icelandic waters. No ice reports available.
10/4 An Icelandic airplane reported two ice-
bergs at the rather unusual position 12 miles
south of 6103/3700.
MAY 1964
On May 21st a ship reported close drift
ice about 40 mi.les NW of Cape Straumnes at
JÖKULL 1964
position 6648/2448. The ice eclge was extend-
ing from E to W as far as sighted.
No other reports available.
JUNE 1964
The average distance of he ice edge from
Cape Straumnes was about 45 miles with near-
est approach of 25 miles.
5/e—7/o The ice edge was running from
6654/2318 to 6700/2320 to 6717/2240 to 6705/
2200 to 6718/2106 to 6812/2112. Scattered
blocks were within this limits at 6655/2200 and
6640/2200 or 18 miles NNE of Cape Horn.
(Observed by Coastal Guard Ship Ægir).
12/q The Coastal Guard Plane TF-SIF: The
ice edge observecl at 6659/2611 to 6658/2514
to 6716/2425 to 6718/2419 to 6726/2354 to
6742/2313 to 6743/2346 to 6812/2148.
29/ö Ægir reports position of ice edge from
6654/2312 to 6700/2154 thence in direction 60°
true.
|°/o Ægir 0900: A strip of ice extending
frorn 6657/2155 to 6629/2145 to 6625/2121.
JULY 1964
The ice edge was not far from the NW-ern
promontories of Iceland. The average distance
frorn Cape Straumnes was about 40 miles with
nearest approach of 22 miles. Scattered brash
and blocks were drifting in the coastal waters
off Cape Horn during tlie first half of the
month.
The main position of the ice edge according
to several reports was from 6640/2500 to 6700/
2330 to 6700/2200 to 6640/2000, thence NE-
wards to Kolbeinsey.
4/t m/s Skjaldbreið 1650: Consiclerable drift
ice on the sailing route 14 miles NE of Geir-
ólfsgnúpur.
2/i Coastal Guard Ice-flight: Ice boundary
from about 6700/2500 to 6650/2300 to 6655/
2220 to 6630/2125 to 6700/2100 thence in N-
NW-erly direction.
About 11 miles E of Cape North begins a
concentration of drift ice that covers about 60
square miles. Its distance from the coast is
from 6—8 miles.
2/t—11 /7 Scattered drift ice was reported
dayly on the sailing route 10—20 miles E of
Cape Horn but seems to have drifted west-
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