Wordie Glacier

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Wordie Glacier
Wordie Gletscher
Terminus of Wordie Glacier in northeast Greenland with small terminal moraine.jpg
View of the Wordie Glacier terminus with its small terminal moraine
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Location within Greenland
Location Greenland
Coordinates 74°15′N23°3′W / 74.250°N 23.050°W / 74.250; -23.050
Length80 km
Width9 km
Terminus Godthab Gulf
North Atlantic Ocean

Wordie Glacier (Danish : Wordie Gletscher) is a glacier in northeastern Greenland. It has its terminus on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet.

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This glacier was named after Scottish polar explorer James Wordie (1890–1962) by the 1926–27 expedition led by Lauge Koch. [1]

Geography

The Wordie Glacier is quite large and several nunataks rise above it. It flows for about 80 km from the NW east of Stenoland and west of Payer Land. The glacier has several branches, including the Vibeke Glacier and the smaller Iris Glacier to the west, and the Granta Glacier that drains into the Granta Fjord to the east. Faraway How and C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak are located in the Wordie Glacier. [1]

The terminus of the Wordie Glacier is north of the Norlund Alps, in the Wordie Bay, a small bay at the head of the Godthab Gulf, southwest of Clavering Island. The Jordan Hill, a conspicuous 1,410 m high promontory rises by the shore on the northern side of the terminus of the Wordie Glacier. About 40 kilometers to the NNE lies the Tyrolerfjord, the terminus of the Copeland Glacier (Pasterze Glacier). [2]

East Greenland Terra/MODIS satellite image Greenland.A2003233.1340.250m.jpg
East Greenland Terra/MODIS satellite image
Map of the area showing the Wordie Glacier on the left. Clavering 1932.tif
Map of the area showing the Wordie Glacier on the left.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Wordie Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 21 April 2016.


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