Wordie Glacier

Wordie Glacier
Wordie Glacier
	Wordie Gletscher
	View of the Wordie Glacier terminus with its small terminal moraine
	Location within Greenland
Location	Greenland
Coordinates	74°15′N23°3′W / 74.250°N 23.050°W Coordinates: 74°15′N23°3′W / 74.250°N 23.050°W
Length	80 km
Width	9 km
Terminus	Godthab Gulf ; North Atlantic Ocean

Last updated March 02, 2020

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

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

Bibliography

R. Thomas et al. Recent changes on Greenland outlet glaciers , Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 55, No. 189, 2009
Wordie, J. M.; Manley, G.; White, P. F.; Johnson, D. McI. (1994). "The Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland in 1926". The Geographical Journal. GJ. 70 (1/2): 53. doi:10.2307/1781943. JSTOR 1781943.

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References

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

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[cat-1] 1 2 "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 21 April 2016.

[mapcarta-2] "Wordie Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 21 April 2016.