Abstract
The recent appearance of the 1939 issue of this unique publication marks the return after an absence of several years of the annual report of Arctic ice conditions. Five plates in color showing the mean monthly ice limits for April, May, June, July, and August follow 16 pages of text describing conditions in greater or lesser detail in different parts of the Arctic.In the Greenland Sea the ice was considerably below the normal except in the estuaries of the fjords on the northeast coast. There the ice melted very slowly owing to the unusual combination of very heavy ice encrusted snow on the sea ice, and the absence of any gales during June and July which normally break up the ice at these points. The coasts of Iceland were free of ice throughout the year which is the sixth year in the 1930's with such unusually light ice conditions off Iceland. The light ice conditions in the Greenland Sea were associated with unusually severe ice conditions off Newfoundland and Labrador, another instance of a previously noted inverse relationship between ice in the Greenland Sea and ice off Newfoundland.
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