James Wordie
Scottish polar explorer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir James Mann Wordie CBE FRS FRSGS LLD 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. Early life and education Wordie was born at Partick, Glasgow, the son of Jane Catherine and John Wordie, owner of Wordie & Co., a major carrier and carting contractor, with multiple premises throughout Glasgow. He had a sister, Helen. The family lived at 4 Buckingham Terrace in the Hillhead district. The house, which still stands, is a mid-terraced 19th-century three-storey and basement house facing Great Western Road.
James Wordie's Published Works
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- The Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland in 1926 (1927) (20)
- An Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic in 1937 (1938) (19)
- II.—Shackleton Antarctic Expedition, 1914–1917 : Geological Observations in the Weddell Sea Area (1922) (15)
- Observations on Certain Antarctic Icebergs (1933) (15)
- The Ross Sea Drift of the "Aurora" in 1915-1916 (1921) (14)
- Present-Day Conditions in Spitsbergen (1921) (13)
- XXXI.—Shackleton Antarctic Expedition, 1914–1917: The Natural History of Pack-Ice as observed in the Weddell Sea (12)
- Cambridge East Greenland Expedition, 1929: Ascent of Petermann Peak (1930) (11)
- The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1943–46 (1946) (9)
- XVIII.—The Geology of Jan Mayen (9)
- An Expedition to Melville Bay and North-East Baffin Land (1935) (8)
- A Contribution to the Geology of the Country between Petermann Peak and Kjerulf Fjord, East Greenland (1930) (7)
- The Geographical Pattern of Population Changes in England and Wales, 1921-1951: Discussion (1953) (7)
- Jan Mayen Island (1922) (7)
- XXX.—Shackleton Antarctic Expedition, 1914–1917: Depths and Deposits of the Weddell Sea (6)
- The Drift of the "Endurance" (1918) (4)
- John Rae's correspondence with the Hudson's Bay Company on Arctic exploration, 1844-1855 (1953) (4)
- Discussion on the Origin of Glacial Drifts (1950) (3)
- The Cambridge Expedition to Edge Island: Discussion (1928) (2)
- Sir Hubert Wilkins (1959) (2)
- The Danish Expedition to Peary Land, 1947-49: Discussion (1952) (2)
- The Conquest of the South Pole: Antarctic Exploration 1906–1931 (1932) (2)
- Professor J. W. Gregory's Expedition to Peru, 1932: Discussion (1933) (1)
- The Problem of the Great Ross Barrier: Discussion (1948) (1)
- ‘Barrier’ versus ‘Shelf’ (1950) (1)
- The Antarctic Regions@@@Antarctic Adventure and Research@@@Regions Polaires Australes (1931) (1)
- The Imperial College Expedition to Jan Mayen Island: Discussion (1939) (1)
- Recent Economic Trends in Arizona: Discussion (1954) (1)
- Land and Population in West Nile District, Uganda: Discussion (1954) (1)
- Colonisation and development in east Greenland 1 (1)
- Antarctic Research by the "Norvegia" Expeditions and Others: Discussion (1931) (1)
- The Baffin Island Expedition, 1950: Discussion (1952) (1)
- The British Arctic Air Route Expedition: Discussion (1932) (1)
- The International Geophysical Year: Geophysical Station at Coats Land, Antarctica (1956) (1)
- The Cruise of the Terningen: Discussion (1924) (1)
- The Land of Sinai: Discussion (1953) (0)
- The Arctic Flights of Aries: Discussion (1946) (0)
- Technical Aspects of the Aries Flights: Discussion (1946) (0)
- The East Coast Floods: Discussion (1953) (0)
- The Ross Barrier and the Mechanism of Ice Movement: Discussion (1925) (0)
- Geophysical Investigations of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Discussion (1959) (0)
- The Kalahari Today: Discussion (1952) (0)
- Expedition to Ellesmere Island, 1937-38: Discussion (1940) (0)
- Discovery II: An Appreciation of the Work Done During her Third Commission (1935) (0)
- The British Trans-Greenland Expedition, 1934: Discussion (1935) (0)
- The Endurance in the Weddell Sea (1930) (0)
- The Extinct Waterways of the Fens: Discussion (1934) (0)
- The Antarctic Voyages of R. R. S. Discovery II and R. R. S. William Scoresby, 1935-37: Discussion (1939) (0)
- Arctic patrols of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1946–48 (1947) (0)
- Dr H. R. Mill's Antarctic Library (1946) (0)
- Captain William Adams and Dr R. W. Gray (1944) (0)
- King George the Sixth Sound: Discussion (1940) (0)
- The Significance of Irrigation in Morocco's Economic Development: Discussion (1954) (0)
- Water Levels in Fowlmere and Other Breckland Meres: Discussion (1941) (0)
- Two Recent Journeys on the Coast of Eastern Greenland: Discussion (0)
- Some Problems of Arctic Travel: After a Forced Landing: Discussion (1929) (0)
- North of Greenland: Discussion (1924) (0)
- International Geophysical Year, 1957–58 (1955) (0)
- British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-37: Discussion (1938) (0)
- Greenland as a Switch for Cyclones: Discussion (1933) (0)
- Easter Island: Discussion (1954) (0)
- The First Swiss Expedition to Mount Everest, 1952: Discussion (1953) (0)
- Work done during the Third Commission of the R.R.S. Discovery II (0)
- The Voyage of the St Roch through the North-West Passage, 1944 (1945) (0)
- The Kimberley Division of Western Australia: Discussion (1953) (0)
- An International Expedition to Antarctica: Discussion (1953) (0)
- The New Political Geography of Inner Asia: Discussion (1953) (0)
- The Oxford University Greenland Expedition, West Greenland, 1936: Discussion (1937) (0)
- The Voyage of Discovery II, 1950-51: Discussion (1952) (0)
- The Drift of the "Endurance": Discussion (1918) (0)
- The Polar Medal (1933) (0)
- The Banda Arc: Its Structure and Geographical Relations: Discussion (1923) (0)
- A Summer Visit to Jan Mayen Island. (0)
- The Cambridge Spitsbergen Expedition, 1949: Discussion (1952) (0)
- Ohthere's "Cwenas and Lakes": Discussion (1954) (0)
- The Harvard. Dartmouth Alaskan Expeditions, 1933-1934: Discussion (1936) (0)
- The Weddell Sea: Review@@@Shackleton Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17: Depths and Deposits of the Weddell Sea@@@Geological Observations in the Weddell Sea Area@@@The Natural History of Pack Ice as Observed in the Weddell Sea@@@Die ozeanographischen Arbeiten der Deutschen Antarktischen Expedition, 1911- (1923) (0)
- The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey: Explorations of 1947-48: Discussion (1950) (0)
- The Lakes of Scotland and of Switzerland: Discussion (1926) (0)
- The First Crossing of Antarctica: Discussion (1937) (0)
- The Geographical Work of H. R. H. The Late Duke of the Abruzzi: Discussion (1933) (0)
- Graham Land and the Problem of Stefansson Strait: Discussion (1940) (0)
- Present-Day Conditions in Spitsbergen: Discussion (1921) (0)
- Topography and Weather in the Antarctic: Discussion (1948) (0)
- Aids to the Domesday Geography of North-West Hereford: Discussion (1954) (0)
- Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth (1951) (0)
- Recent Polar Literature: Annual Report of the Committee of Management of the Scott Polar Research Institute (1939) (0)
- Problems of Land Use in the Dry Zone of Ceylon: Discussion (1954) (0)
- The Alps and Wegener's Theory: Discussion (1926) (0)
- The Persian Gulf States and Their Boundary Problems: Discussion (1954) (0)
- Prof. H. U. Sverdrup (1957) (0)
- A Journey in Rasmussen Land: Discussion (1936) (0)
- Greenland under Danish Rule (1929) (0)
- Lieut. J. H. Martin, R.N.V.R. (1940) (0)
- Centenary Of The Sailing Of Sir John Franklin With The Erebus And Terror (1945) (0)
- The Voyage of the R. R. S. Discovery II: Surveys and Soundings: Discussion (1932) (0)
- Shelf-catalogue of the Wordie collection of polar exploration (1964) (0)
- The Falkland Islands and Their Dependencies: Discussion (1955) (0)
- Sir Hubert Wilkins' Discoveries in Graham Land (1929) (0)
- New Light on Livingstone's Last Journey: Discussion (1954) (0)
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