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realized that no other ice was si<»hte(l that year within a thousand 

 miles of the Ba.rtev<iate^x position, ulthou<>h the ice patrol had been 

 maintaininii' a A'i<:ilaiit miard u[)streani, off Newfoundland, the 

 entire s})rinii\ 



An investi<>ation of the records of the United States Hydrographic 

 Office and of the international ice patrol for the period 1900 to 1926 

 retiai'dinii- the southwai'd distribution of icebergs in the western 

 North Atlantic shows that a total of about 386 drift south of New- 

 foundland durinij: a normal year, and that 51 of these on the average 

 (about 15 per cent) are carried south of the Grand Bank. The dis- 

 tribution in the tliree main ])aths, viz, around Cape Race, down the 



Phenomenau Iceberg Drifts 



FiGfKE 1U8. — The al)ove positions were compiled from 21 auflientic and verified 

 reports from ships at sea sighting iceliergs, 1900-1916. (From Jenliins. 1921.) 



east side of the Grand Bank, and southeastward between the bank 

 and Flemish Cap, is 14 per cent, 67 per cent, and 19 per cent, 

 respectively. The distribution by months is as follows: 



~Sonn(i] tiinnber of icebergs south of Neicfoiindlniid 



These data indicate that the iceberg season off New^foundland may 

 be said to cover a period of four months, fi'om March 15 to July 15. 

 The bergs decrease in uniubers noticeablv after the middle of June' 



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