As of 8 March, it is estimated that 10 bergs were south of 48° N. 

 and all 10 were in Trinity and Conception Bay, and it is estimated 

 that there were about 80 bergs and 60 growlers from Fogo Island 

 to the south. For the remainder of the month the surface winds over 

 the ice areas were predominantly northeasterly containing the pack 

 ice in the bays and close alongshore out of the south and east flowing 

 branches of the Labrador Current. On some occasions, the wind 

 direction shifted temporarih^ to the northwest relaxing some of its 

 pressure on the ice held in the bays and against the coast permitting 

 gradual spilling out of the heavily ridged ice from the bays and the 

 rounding of Cape Freels by some pack ice from the Fogo Island area 

 and the subsequent drift to the east and south. The maximum 

 southern extension of the pack ice for the month occurred on 19 

 March with a 20- to 40-mile belt of close pack ice extending from 

 Cape Freels south to 46°25' N. about 30 miles offshore from Cape 

 Race. The pack ice reached its eastern limits for the month on the 

 22d extending east of Baccalieu Island to 51° W. From these dates 

 of maximum south and east extension to the end of the month, 

 the pack ice gradually deteriorated so that by the end of the month, 

 the pack ice south of 49° N. was mostly less than five-tenths concen- 

 tration with eastern limits of 52° W. and southern limits of 47° N. 

 The pack ice north of 49° N. was contained close ashore. In general, 

 the pack ice in the Grand Banks, East Newfoundland area was quite 

 limited although Notre Dame Bay was reported to have considerable 

 heavy pack ice. However, the supply to the north as far as 53° N. 

 was known to be quite limited. Except for a couple of days in early 

 March, St. Johns, Newfoundland was open to navigation, due to 

 a combination of a relatively small amount of pack ice that drifted 

 south and its gradual deterioration. 



The many bergs which had been driven into the bays and stranded 

 against the East Coast of Newfoundland in early March for most 

 part remained so during the month and the supply of bergs to the 

 north were prevented from moving south temporarily. Occasionally, 

 the wind shifted to the west and some small bergs were set free to 

 drift slowly to the south and west close along shore until breaking 

 up into growlers and disintegrating. There was no movement of 

 ice to the east and southeast along the north slope of the Grand Banks 

 toward the shipping lanes. On 22 March there were approximateh' 

 60 bergs and 100 growlers south of Fogo Island and 10 bergs and 

 50 growlers south of 48° N. However, there were reports of numerous 

 bergs in Notre Dame Bay. The easternmost bergs for March was 

 last sighted as a small berg at 46°55' N., 50°45' W. on the 22d. 

 This berg disintegrated by 28 March. By the end of March it is 

 estimated that there were 5 bergs and about 15 growlers south of 

 48° N., and about 55 bergs south of Cape Freels with most of these 



