TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page 



Preface v 



International Ice Patrol, 1959 1 



Surface ice observation and patrol 



Aerial ice observation 8 



Communications 9 



Monthly ice conditions, 1959 11 



Iceberg demolition experiments 22 



Iceberg occurrence by year and month, 1900-1959 29 



Ice reports, 1959 29 



Iceberg detection by radar 49 



Physical oceanography of the Grand Banks region and the Labrador Sea in 1959 98 



VII 



