Wordie Bay
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 Map of the Antarctic Peninsula with Wordie Bay within Marguerite Bay |
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 6 ′ 58 ″ S , 67 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Forster Piedmont Glacier | |
The Wordie Bay is a bay on the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Cape Berteaux and Mount Guernsey to the west of the remains of the Wordie Ice Shelf .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1999 based on the name of the ice shelf of the same name. It is named after the British polar explorer and geologist James Wordie (1889–1962).
Web links
- Wordie Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wordie Bay on geographic.org (English)