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3 unusual facts about James Wordie


Amherst Barrow Whatman

The College was also the home of Andrew Croft, second in command of the Oxford University Expedition to the Arctic (OUEA,1935) and other prominent British explorers like James Wordie.

James Wordie

Places named after him include Wordie Point, Wordie Ice Shelf, Wordie Nunatak and Point Wordie.

The Wordie Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula was named in his honour.



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