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NOVEMBER 



Seventeen bergs were reported from along the steamship tracks off 

 Cape Race. One berg was reported from the extreme northern end 

 of the eastern edge of the Grand Banks. 



DECEMBER 



Twelve bergs were reported from very widely scattered positions^ 

 between Cape Race and Flemish Cap. 



JANUARY, 1930 



Fourteen bergs were reported from between Flemish Cap and 

 47° 30' N., 51° 00' W. The first reports of field ice for the winter 

 were received. The latter ice was on the average somewhat west of 

 the mean position of the bergs. It was common from Cape Race to 

 48° 00' N., 43° 30' W., and thence southward to 46° 00' N., 47° 30' W. 



FEBRUARY 



Field ice and bergs were present in quantity between Flemish Cap 

 and Cape Race, and between Flemish Cap and the Tail of the Banks. 

 It is estimated that 116 different bergs were situated south of the 

 forty-eighth parallel. As usual, the resistant bergs drifted farther 

 east and south into the North Atlantic than did the more ephemeral 

 field ice. Ice conditions were incomparably heavier than in February, 

 1928 or 1929. In neither of the latter years was a single berg reported 

 from south of the forty-eighth parallel until after March 1. 



MARCH 



Eighty-seven different bergs were sighted or reported south of the 

 forty-eighth parallel. Most of them were located between Flemish 

 Cap and the Tail of the Banks. Several good drift tracks could be 

 drawn for bergs that were followed eastward along the temperature 

 wall from the Tail of the Grand Banks. 



Very little ice was reported from north of latitude 46° 40' N. As 

 few vessels were following northerly tracks, it is likely that more ice 

 existed between Cape Race and Flemish Cap than was reported. 



Very little field ice was reported from the Grand Banks region during 

 March. The extremely early withdrawal of this sort of ice laid 

 foundations for the opinion that the bergs would disappear earlier 

 than usual in 1930. That is just what occurred, as can be seen by 

 comparing the ice maps of the next three months with the ice maps 

 for the same months of previous years. 



