James Wordie, photographed on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914
Born
(1889-04-26)26 April 1889
Glasgow, Scotland
Died
16 January 1962(1962-01-16) (aged 72)
Cambridge, England
Resting place
Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling
Other names
Jock Wordie
Alma mater
University of Glasgow St John's College, Cambridge
Spouse
Gertrude Henderson
Awards
CBE, FRS, FRSGS, LLD, W. S. Bruce Medal Founder's Medal Back Award Scottish Geographical Medal
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 was President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1951 to 1954.[1]
^Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002(PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
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...
Wordie may refer to: JamesWordie (1889–1962), Scottish explorer and geologist Wordie Glacier, a glacier in northeastern Greenland Mount Wordie, a mountain...
Wordie Seamount is a seamount located in Bransfield Strait, Antarctica. The feature is named after JamesWordie, geologist on Ernest Shackleton's 1914...
Francis, Lord Rennell 1948–1951 Sir Harry Lindsay 1951–1954 Sir JamesWordie 1954–1958 Sir James Marshall-Cornwall 1958–1961 Roger, Lord Nathan 1961–1963 Raymond...
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group status, as the Wordie Creek Group. The Lower Triassic sediments in the region were discovered in 1926 independently by JamesWordie and Lauge Koch, and...
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...
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...
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)...
Retrieved 9 November 2006. Michael Smith (2004). Polar Crusader: Sir JamesWordie – Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic. Birlinn Ltd. p. 371. ISBN 1-84158-292-1...
named after Scottish polar explorer JamesWordie (1890–1962) by the 1926–27 expedition led by Lauge Koch. The Wordie Glacier is quite large and several...
1929–31, under Mawson, and named for James M. Wordie. This article incorporates public domain material from "Wordie Nunatak". Geographic Names Information...
also an able banjo player. Surgeon James McIlroy was head of the scientific staff, which included geologist JamesWordie. Alexander Macklin was the second...
Dependencies Survey (FIDS), becoming known officially as Station F ("Wordie Hut", after JamesWordie). This was replaced on 30 May 1954 by a larger hut on nearby...
Bibcode:1995JGR...10018503M. doi:10.1029/95JC00965. Smith, M. (2004), Sir JamesWordie, Polar Crusader: Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic, Birlinn, ISBN 9781841582924...
Percy Cox Henry Balfour Philip Chetwode Francis Rodd Harry Lindsay JamesWordieJames Marshall-Cornwall Roger Nathan Raymond Priestley Dudley Stamp Gilbert...
fossils. This started off what became known as the Highlands Controversy. James Nicol recognised the fallacy in Murchison's theory and propounded his own...
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...
Percy Cox Henry Balfour Philip Chetwode Francis Rodd Harry Lindsay JamesWordieJames Marshall-Cornwall Roger Nathan Raymond Priestley Dudley Stamp Gilbert...
Cambridge. His first expedition was to Greenland in 1929 with his tutor JamesWordie. After graduation in 1930, he travelled with a Cambridge University expedition...
University Press. ISBN 0-521-33477-2. Fisher, Margery and James (1957). Shackleton. London: James Barrie Books. "Gold Medal Winners" (PDF). Royal Geographical...
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