information. Sonic incidents have their stories set out in hooks as in the case ofthcAniw. 

 The story oi' many others v\ould be worthy as books. 



The focus of the incidents was on ship colHsion vsith icebergs. However, the term iceberg 

 was often used loosely, and while it should be ice of glacial origin as opposed to that forincd 

 by the freezing of sea water, mariners often made no such tine distinctions. Generally, if the 

 term iceberg was used then it was included in the list of incidents. The exceptions were if the 

 location made the presence of glacial ice doubtful as in the Bering Straits, where multiyear 

 sea-ice would be more likely. These cases have been omitted until conllrmatory reports are 

 found. There were also several incidents in the Cabot Strait, around the east coast of Cape 



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45- 



65-U . + ^ 40-H 



50' 



Figure 2: ChcUt of tlie appro.ximately 300 known locations of iceberg colli.sions 

 oft'Nevvfoundlaiid witli tlie Titanic location inai'ked an a squaj-e. 



Breton and the mouth of the St. Lawrence, where it was likely that some of these events were 

 caused by thick ice floes rather than icebergs. In other cases the description just mentioned 

 ice or pieces of ice and best judgment was used in deciding whether these could have been 

 icebergs, depending on locality, nature of damage, and time of year. 



DISCUSSION 



The search for iceberg incidents was conHned to North American shipping routes and 

 waterways so any relating to icebergs off Antarctica were ignored, and there is only one 

 incident far to the east of Greenland. The southern coasts of Alaska have many small valley 

 glaciers which calve small icebergs into the Pacific waters and have caused some grief to 

 shipping over the years, but it is the Labrador current flowing along the east coast of 



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