The Total Solar Eclipse of Aug. 31, 1932

Abstract

THE belt of totality of the solar eclipse of Aug. 31, 1932, starts north of Siberia, and, after passing within about 300 miles of the north pole, crosses Canada and New England, and ends in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. In Canada the track runs from the southern end of Hudson Bay south-east across Quebec, the central line crossing the St. Lawrence River at Yamachiche, where there is a Marconi wireless station (Fig. 1). The southwesterly boundary of the belt of totality passes through Montreal, and reaches the Atlantic coast between Salem and Gloucester Boston is outside the belt, Cape Cod within it the north-eastern boundary reaches the coast close to Boothbay in Maine.