Wordie Glacier

Wordie Glacier
Wordie Gletscher
View of the Wordie Glacier terminus with its small terminal moraine
Map showing the location of Wordie Glacier
Map showing the location of Wordie Glacier
Location within Greenland
LocationGreenland
Coordinates74°15′N 23°3′W / 74.250°N 23.050°W / 74.250; -23.050
Length80 km
Width9 km
TerminusGodthab Gulf
North Atlantic Ocean

Wordie Glacier (Danish: 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]

  1. ^ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 21 April 2016.