Jökull - 01.12.1969, Síða 83

26° 24° 20° 18° 16° 14° 12° 10°
Fig. 2. Ice reconnaissance flight TF-SIF, Dec. 6, 1967. Explanation of Icelandic terms: Þéttleiki
= coverage, fleiri en 100 ísjakar = more than 100 growlers or bergy-bits, frerri en 100 isjakar =
fewer than 100 growlers or bergy bits.
11 /12 Due to southerly wind the ice drifted
offshore ancl the only message received was
from Hornbjargsviti reporting two large floes
on shipping lane E of the lighthouse.
15-1.8/12 Following a northerly storm drift
ice was again reported near the north coast of
Iceland. Some of the information received is
quoted below.
15_16/12 Scattered floes and an ice strip were
observed near Grímsey.
3ö/12 Trawler Kaldbakur reports at 6642/
2448: Dense drift ice closing navigation 2—4
miles N of the ship, orientation of the edge
E-W.
17/i2 Mánárbakki observed some floes 8—15
km off, drifting ESE.
18/i2 Ice flight by SIF revealed the bound-
ary of close pack roughly 45 miles NW of
Kópur, 30 miles N of Kögur ancl 55 miles
NNW of Skagi.The edge of very open pack was
approx. 32 miles NW of Deild, 23 miles NW
of Straumnes and 13 miles N of Horn.
Coast Guard vessel reported drift ice on
shipping route from Hraunhafnartangi to As-
mundarstaðaeyja and navigation uncertain.
10-26/12 xhe only report received was from
Hraun on Skagi where tliree floes were ob-
served near the station on the 23rd.
27-28/i2 Northerly gale. Grímsey reported
scattered floes around and passing the island
towards south.
28 /12 Siglunes reports: Small strips and
single floes from N to NE.
30/i2 An English trawler was blocked by ice
4—5 miles WNW of Rauðinúpur and found it
necessary to sail 9 miles south of Grímsey.
31/i2 Ice flight by SIF: The boundary of
the main ice was running roughly frorn 6620/
2600 to 6655/2410 to 6650/2227 to 6656/2122
to 6650/2000 to 6652/1800 to 6710/1722, cover-
age N of the coordinates 7—9/10 or more.
South of this boundary there was a belt of
very open pack, 8—10 miles wicle W of Grimsey,
but widening eastwards and extending to Tjör-
nes and Melrakkaslétta. The edge of the very
open pack was 14 miles N of Kögur and 7
miles NE of Horn.
JANUARY 1968
Dnring the first days drift ice luas reported
near the NW and N coasts from Dýrafjörður
to Alelrakkaslétta. The boundary of close pack
came to luithin 20 miles N of Straumnes and
Horn but later moved off.
t—5 /1 Mainly northerly winds brought scat-
tered floes as far south along the NW coast
as Dýrafjörður and drift ice was reported near
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