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... 10 KB (848 words) - 23:32, 12 May 2024 |
Wordie may refer to: James Wordie (1889–1962), Scottish explorer and geologist Wordie Glacier, a glacier in northeastern Greenland Mount Wordie, a mountain... 838 bytes (140 words) - 23:47, 19 March 2023 |
Wordie Seamount is a seamount located in Bransfield Strait, Antarctica. The feature is named after James Wordie, geologist on Ernest Shackleton's 1914... 1 KB (81 words) - 16:00, 13 June 2023 |
scientists: "Sea-ice nomenclature" by James Wordie, "Meteorology" by Leonard Hussey, "Physics" by Reginald W. James and "South Atlantic Whales and Whaling"... 8 KB (871 words) - 19:35, 12 May 2024 |
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... 2 KB (196 words) - 10:44, 27 March 2022 |
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... 3 KB (284 words) - 22:36, 1 March 2020 |
urbanist David Harvey, the world's most cited academic geographer Sir James Wordie, Scottish polar explorer and geologist Dawn Airey Ash Amin John Barrett... 6 KB (473 words) - 03:39, 6 February 2024 |
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... 23 KB (1,017 words) - 07:13, 26 February 2024 |
Vernadsky Research Base (section Wordie House) 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... 20 KB (1,901 words) - 01:15, 28 April 2024 |
Percy Cox Henry Balfour Philip Chetwode Francis Rodd Harry Lindsay James Wordie James Marshall-Cornwall Roger Nathan Raymond Priestley Dudley Stamp Gilbert... 16 KB (1,377 words) - 13:00, 4 May 2024 |
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... 4 KB (310 words) - 08:48, 4 February 2024 |
fossils. This started off what became known as the Highlands Controversy. James Nicol recognised the fallacy in Murchison's theory and propounded his own... 27 KB (2,820 words) - 21:53, 2 April 2024 |
Percy Cox Henry Balfour Philip Chetwode Francis Rodd Harry Lindsay James Wordie James Marshall-Cornwall Roger Nathan Raymond Priestley Dudley Stamp Gilbert... 84 KB (9,486 words) - 08:10, 10 May 2024 |
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... 10 KB (429 words) - 19:40, 12 May 2024 |
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... 20 KB (1,377 words) - 22:26, 23 February 2024 |