The Wordie Ice Shelf (69º15´S 067º45´W) is a confluent Austrias longest glacier, the Pasterze, winds its 8 km (5 mile) route at the foot of Austrias highest mountain, the Grossglockner A glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity. A glacier is formed by multi... glacier projecting as an An ice shelf is a thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface, typically in Antarctica, Greenland, and elsewhere in the Arctic. The boundary between floating ice shelf and the grounded (resting on bedrock) ice... ice shelf into the SE part of Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell, along the western coast of Booth Island and Mount Scott flank the narrow Lemaire Channel on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Peninsula (69 S 065 W) is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica, and the only part of that continent that extends outside the Antarctic Circle. It lies in the... Antarctic Peninsula.

Discovered by the BGLE under Rymill, 1934-37, who named this feature for James M. Wordie, Honorary Secretary (later President) of the The Royal Geographical Society is a learned society, founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical science, under the patronage of King William IV. It absorbed the African Association founded by Joseph Banks in 1788. It was given a Royal charter by Queen Victoria in 1859. Today the Society is... Royal Geographical Society, member of the Discovery Committee, and chairman of the Scott Polar Research Institute. He also had been geologist and Chief of the Scientific Staff of the British expedition, 1914-16, under Ernest Henry Shackleton The Discovery During the Discovery expedition, Shackleton made the first balloon flight over Antarctica Four men from Nimrod (left to right): Frank Wild, Shackleton, Eric Marshall, and Jameson Adams Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (February 15, 1874 – January 5, 1922) was an Irish-born explorer, now chiefly... Ernest Shackleton.