American practical navigator: an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy (1914)
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838, United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Equipment, Logan, George Wood, 1868-1915 · Washington, Govt. Print. Off. · leaf 247
ing them to break up. Disintegration is also hastened by theirreaking away from the floe ice, for detached bergs will melt and break up rapidlyeven in high latitudes during the summer. 549. The Ice-Bearing Currents.—The Labrador Current passes to thesouthward along the coasts of Bafhn Land and… … Fig. 79. the northward. The general drift of the current is to the southward, as shov/n bythe passage of many icebergs, although occasions have arisen on which these havebeen observed to travel northward without any apparent reason. The breadth anddepth of the current are not known, but it is…
Navigation · Nautical astronomy
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