Excerpt from International Ice Observation and Ice Patrol Service in the North Atlantic Ocean: Season of 1936
No bergs were reported in the ice-patrol area (i. E. South of 49° N.) during June. Numerous bergs were reported in the Straits of Belle Isle to Cape Norman, and scattered bergs along track G for a distance of 220 miles to the northeast of Belle Isle.
The international ice observation was discontinued on June 9, 1936. From June 18 to July 1, however, the United States Coast Guard cutter General Greene, the oceanographic vessel of the Inter national ice-patrol force, made a short oceanographic cruise along the Labrador coast north to South Wolf Island and thence to the southwest coast of Greenland between Cape Farewell and Arsuk Fjord (ivigtut). Ice conditions in these regions were extremely light for any season, but remarkably so for the month of June; no field ice at all along the Labrador coast and only scattered pieces around Cape Farewell. Cape Farewell, which is usually inaccessible due to pack ice and bergs, was easily attained this year. Bergs were less prevalent than normally. (see fig.
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