Sir James Wordie

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Armstrong, Terence
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1962
• Subjects: Fast ice; Measurement; Pancake ice; Physical properties; Salinity; Sea ice; Spatial distribution; Strength; North Star Bugt; Greenland; Antarctic; Arctic; Bache Peninsula; Baffin Bay; Baffin Island; Carey Øer; Clyde Inlet; Eglinton Fiord; Elephant Island; Ellesmere Island; Kap; Kap York; North Star; Pancake; Shackleton; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Wordie; Yukon; Antarc*; Arctic Institute of North America; Baffin; Greenland Sea; Scott Polar Research Institute; The Arctic Institute; Upernavik; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66620

Sir James Mann Wordie, C.B.E., an Honorary Member of the Arctic Institute of North America, died in Cambridge on January 16, 1962 at the age of 72. In his quiet way he exerted a very great influence on polar work in Britain for some 40 years, and it is unlikely that anyone again will be able to fill...