Report of the International Ice Patrol in the North Atlantic Season of 2011

• Main Author: In The North Atlantic
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Belle Isle; Greenland; Lanes; Strait of Belle Isle; glacier; North Atlantic; Petermann glacier
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.423.7085; http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/iip/2011_IIP_Annual_Report.pdf

Patrol's seNices and ice conditions during the 2011 season. With only three icebergs crossing 48 ° N, this was one of the lightest seasons on record, and the fourth time in the last seven years that icebergs did not threaten transatlantic shipping lanes. Transatlantic shipping benefited by savi...