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    Sir James Mann Wordie CBE FRS FRSGS LLD (26 April 1889 – 16 January 1962) was a Scottish polar explorer and geologist. Friends knew him as Jock Wordie. He...
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  • Wordie may refer to: James Wordie (1889–1962), Scottish explorer and geologist Wordie Glacier, a glacier in northeastern Greenland Mount Wordie, a mountain...
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    Francis, Lord Rennell 1948–1951 Sir Harry Lindsay 1951–1954 Sir James Wordie 1954–1958 Sir James Marshall-Cornwall 1958–1961 Roger, Lord Nathan 1961–1963 Raymond...
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    Wordie Seamount is a seamount located in Bransfield Strait, Antarctica. The feature is named after James Wordie, geologist on Ernest Shackleton's 1914...
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    Eugene Record, 27 January 1979 with The Doobie Brothers, 12 May 1979 with James Taylor and 21 January 1984 with Mary Palin, his mother) Ripping Yarns (1976–1979)...
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    scientists: "Sea-ice nomenclature" by James Wordie, "Meteorology" by Leonard Hussey, "Physics" by Reginald W. James and "South Atlantic Whales and Whaling"...
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    The Wordie Ice Shelf (69°15′S 67°45′W / 69.250°S 67.750°W / -69.250; -67.750) was a confluent glacier projecting as an ice shelf into the SE part of...
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    Alexander Macklin, surgeon James McIlroy, surgeon Sir James Wordie, geologist Leonard Hussey, meteorologist Reginald James, physicist Robert Clark, biologist...
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    surgeons, Alexander Macklin and James McIlroy; a geologist, James Wordie; a biologist, Robert Clark; a physicist, Reginald W. James; and Leonard Hussey, a meteorologist...
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    Percy Cox Henry Balfour Philip Chetwode Francis Rodd Harry Lindsay James Wordie James Marshall-Cornwall Roger Nathan Raymond Priestley Dudley Stamp Gilbert...
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    named after Scottish polar explorer James Wordie (1890–1962) by the 1926–27 expedition led by Lauge Koch. The Wordie Glacier is quite large and several...
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    also an able banjo player. Surgeon James McIlroy was head of the scientific staff, which included geologist James Wordie. Alexander Macklin was the second...
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    Percy Cox Henry Balfour Philip Chetwode Francis Rodd Harry Lindsay James Wordie James Marshall-Cornwall Roger Nathan Raymond Priestley Dudley Stamp Gilbert...
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    urbanist David Harvey, the world's most cited academic geographer Sir James Wordie, Scottish polar explorer and geologist Dawn Airey Ash Amin John Barrett...
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  • group status, as the Wordie Creek Group. The Lower Triassic sediments in the region were discovered in 1926 independently by James Wordie and Lauge Koch, and...
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    Retrieved 9 November 2006. Michael Smith (2004). Polar Crusader: Sir James Wordie – Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic. Birlinn Ltd. p. 371. ISBN 1-84158-292-1...
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    Chile, reopened in 2015. The research base was established in 1947 at the Wordie House site on Winter Island by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...
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    elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir James Wordie, George Tyrrell, Sir Arthur Trueman and John Weir. In 1917 he married...
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    Percy Cox Henry Balfour Philip Chetwode Francis Rodd Harry Lindsay James Wordie James Marshall-Cornwall Roger Nathan Raymond Priestley Dudley Stamp Gilbert...
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    Percy Cox Henry Balfour Philip Chetwode Francis Rodd Harry Lindsay James Wordie James Marshall-Cornwall Roger Nathan Raymond Priestley Dudley Stamp Gilbert...
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    Mount Wordie is a 4,700+ foot (1,433+ meter) mountain summit located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, in the Alsek Ranges of the Saint Elias...
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    Percy Cox Henry Balfour Philip Chetwode Francis Rodd Harry Lindsay James Wordie James Marshall-Cornwall Roger Nathan Raymond Priestley Dudley Stamp Gilbert...
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    fossils. This started off what became known as the Highlands Controversy. James Nicol recognised the fallacy in Murchison's theory and propounded his own...
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    Percy Cox Henry Balfour Philip Chetwode Francis Rodd Harry Lindsay James Wordie James Marshall-Cornwall Roger Nathan Raymond Priestley Dudley Stamp Gilbert...
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    Bibcode:1995JGR...10018503M. doi:10.1029/95JC00965. Smith, M. (2004), Sir James Wordie, Polar Crusader: Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic, Birlinn, ISBN 9781841582924...
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    South Asia, which remained standard for most of the 19th century Sir James Wordie (1889–1962), geologist, chief of scientific staff on Sir Ernest Shackleton's...
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    threats to the Raj. Departing Peking with a senior colleague, Henry E. M. James (on leave from his Indian Civil Service position) and a young British consular...
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  • for Elephant Island in the three lifeboats salvaged from the vessel, the James Caird, the Dudley Docker and the Stancomb Wills. The boat each man was assigned...
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    Publication: Editing Queen Victoria. p. chapter 3 "It's Very Remarkable". Maj-Gen James Grierson, Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force 1859–1908, Edinburgh:...
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  • founded James Caird Society, named after the boat in which his explorer father and crew escaped Antarctica (itself, in turn, named for James Key Caird...
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