THERE WILL ALWAYS BE ICEBERGS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 October 1950, Page 5

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE ICEBERGS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC

NEW YORK. Oct. 2.—A French scientist, Mr. Gerald Taylor, who has arrived in New York from Greenland, said today that there would always be icebergs to menace North Atlantic shipping. Mr. Taylor spent 18 months on the Greenland icecap about 1000 miles from the North Pole as a member of a French Government sponsored expedition. He said the temperature dropped as low as 78 degrees under freezing point and was never above freezing point. The expedition discovered that the ice on Greenland was about 9000 feet thick and that the ice pushed out into the sea at an average rate of 60 feet a day. Icebergs which floated through the North Atlantic Ocean had broken from that ice. There was no indication that icebergs would become smaller or fewer, said Mr. Taylor. He added that the expedition had constructed a weather station on a 9900 foot ice plateau. Greenland's icecap was important because it had been determined that lhe weather conditions there had a bearing on the weather over the Noria Atlantic air and shipping lines. The establishment of a weather base would enable meteorologists make more accurate and quicker forecast® which would add to the safety of aeroplane journeys across the Atlantic. Mr. Taylor said lie estimated that the Greenland icecap was one of the highest, “ice mountains’’ in the work', but not as large in size as the jee areas in the South Polar regions.