A towed array experiment was performed by NRL in 1982 in the vicinity of the ice edge in the Greenland Sea. The array was towed normal and parallel to and at ranges between 4–50 km from the ice edge; the received data were beamformed to study the horizontal directionality of the noise. The results indicated that a few localized ‘‘hot spots’’ (with dimensions<5 km) in the vicinity of the ice edge were the dominant noise sources. These sources persisted for nearly 1 day. The nominal separation between the hot spots was about 50 km. The ice edge noise spectrum measured at these ranges decreased 11–12 dB per octave with frequency between 100–500 Hz, as compared with the 6 dB per octave spectrum of ambient sea noise. Possible sources are hypothesized in the context of known eddy, wind, and wave effects in the vicinity of the ice edge.