The Drift of Ice Island WH-5

From 1962 to 1964 Ice Island WH-5 drifted south from the Arctic Ocean water transport through Nares Strait is not continuous, and during the summer of 1963 was through Nares Strait and Baffin Bay. The movements of WH-5 indicate that the southward clockwise gyre in Kane Basin. By the time they reached the waters of Labfador and Newfound- interrupted by pulses of surface water to the north and the development of a sluggish counter- land in 1964 the WH-5 pieces were extensively scattered due to their Irregular escape from Smith Sound and the vagaries of the Baffin and Labrador Current systems.