Diagram showing breakup of Wordie Ice Shelf over several yearsLocation of Wordie Ice Shelf within the Antarctic PeninsulaLocation of Antarctic Peninsula within Antarctica
The Wordie Ice Shelf (69°15′S67°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 Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell, along the western coast of Antarctic Peninsula.
In March 2008, the British Antarctic Survey reported that it appeared ready to break away from the Antarctic Peninsula.[1][failed verification] By April 2009 it had done so, vanishing completely.[2]
Discovered by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill, 1934–37, who named this feature for Sir James Wordie, Honorary Secretary (later President) of the Royal Geographical Society, member of the Discovery Committee, and chairman of the Scott Polar Research Institute. He also had been geologist and Chief of the Scientific Staff of the British expedition, 1914–16, under Ernest Shackleton.
^"Press Release - Antarctic ice shelf 'hangs by a thread'". National Environment Research Council. British Antarctic Survey. March 25, 2008. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
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miles (4 km) long and 1 nautical mile (2 km) wide at the ice front (1974) of the WordieIceShelf, 16 nautical miles (30 km) west-northwest of the Triune...
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Known changes in coastline ice around the Antarctic Peninsula: 1936–1989: WordieIceShelf significantly reduced in size. 1995: Ice in the Prince Gustav Channel...
between the Relay Hills and the Kinnear Mountains, southward of the WordieIceShelf, Antarctic Peninsula. An important pass used by the British Graham...
Highland and connects with glaciers leading westward to WordieIceShelf. The fifth, Mercator Ice Piedmont, is nourished by the outflow from Weyerhaeuser...
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rock column, 710 metres (2,330 ft) high, on the north side of the WordieIceShelf near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Together with the mountain...
several glaciers which merge with Hariot Glacier to flow into the WordieIceShelf. "Confluence Cone". Geographic Names Information System. United States...
mountain, 1,120 metres (3,670 ft) high, on the northeast side of the WordieIceShelf, Antarctic Peninsula. It was first roughly surveyed by the British...
known route leading inland to Morgan Upland between Neny Fjord and the WordieIceShelf. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Harold...
Point and southwestern Wordie Point. The northernmost point is Finger Point and the southernmost Mikhaylov Point. Cliffs and ice falls make up most of...
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