SUMMARY OF ICEBERG RECORDS IN THE NORTH- 

 WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC, 1880-1926 



In connection with the ice forecasting work described in the 

 " Weather " section (pp. 31-48) it has been fpund necessary to collect the 

 very best data from all sources on the amounts of ice from year to year 

 and month to month. For the period 1880 to 1900 advantage was 

 taken of the figures compiled by Mecking and also those of Schott, 

 these investigators having based their comparative estimates of 

 these years on records of the Deutsche Seewarte, the United States 

 Hydrographic Office, the United States Weather Bureau, the United 

 States Signal Service. We made an actual count of the number of 

 icebergs south of Newfoundland by months for the period 1900-1926, 

 and the records consulted in this task were those of the International 

 Ice Patrol, and the United States Hydrographic Office. For the sake 

 of record a table of the actual iceberg count is appended herewith, 

 followed by a table of iceberg anomalies : 



NUMBER OF ICEBERGS SOUTH OF NEWFOUNDLAND (48TH PAR- 

 ALLEL) IN WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC 



Year 



1900 

 1901 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 

 1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 1910 

 1911 

 1912 

 1913 

 1914 

 1915 

 1916 

 1917 

 1918 

 1919, 

 1920 

 1921 

 1922 

 1923 

 1924 

 1925 

 1926 



An- 

 nual 



89 



88 



41 



802 



265 



845 



405 



638 



222 



1,024 



50 



396 



1,019 



550 



731 



468 



54 



38 



199 



317 



445 



746 



523 



236 



11 



109 



345 



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