| 词条 | Wordie Glacier |
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| name = Wordie Glacier | photo = Terminus of Wordie Glacier in northeast Greenland with small terminal moraine.jpg | photo_caption = View of the Wordie Glacier terminus with its small terminal moraine | type = | location = Greenland | map = Greenland | map_caption = Location within Greenland | coordinates = {{coord|74|15|N|23|3|W|region:GL_dim:30000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | mark = Blue_pog.svg | area = | length = 80 km | width = 9 km | thickness = | terminus = Godthab Gulf North Atlantic Ocean | status = }} Wordie Glacier ({{lang-da|Wordie Gletscher}}) is a glacier in northeastern Greenland. It has its terminus on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. This glacier was named after Scottish polar explorer James Wordie (1890–1962) by the 1926–27 expedition led by Lauge Koch.[1] GeographyThe 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 in the Wordie Bay, a small bay 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] Bibliography
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References1. ^1 {{cite web | title = Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland | publisher = Geological Survey of Denmark | url = http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr21/nr21_p117-368.pdf3 | accessdate = 21 April 2016}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://mapcarta.com/19183086|title=Wordie Gletscher|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=21 April 2016}} External links
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