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The North Atlantic Watch

Broadcast · 1940 · Twice weekly

Iceland, Greenland and the Nordic services

Iceland, Greenland and the Nordic services · 1940–1970

Broadcasts

12

Cadence

Twice weekly

Rated

PG

Since

1940

The run

Network
Iceland, Greenland and the Nordic services
Years active
1940–1970
Surviving broadcasts
12
Genre
documentary

Transmissions from the far North Atlantic: Icelandic and Nordic services, Greenland and Faroese outposts, forces outlets at Keflavík and the weather-ship traffic that stitched the ocean together. Public-domain audio from the Internet Archive.

Source collection

Internet Archive audio collections

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: shortwave

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

0 dated broadcasts across 31 years on the air, with 31 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

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