James Wordie
Sir James Mann Wordie, CBE (* April 26, 1889 in Glasgow, † January 16, 1962 in Cambridge ) was a Scottish polar explorer and geologist.
Wordie received the bachelor's degree in geology of The Glasgow Academy and the University of Glasgow. He then continued his studies at St John 's College, Cambridge and continued began after the end of 1912 with his research.
His work brought him into contact with Frank Debenham and Raymond Priestley, the participants of the Terra Nova had been expedition of Robert Falcon Scott. Wordies interest in expeditions and scientific discovery work was reinforced by these acquaintances.
1914 Wordie was involved in Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition, which was officially called Endurance expedition to the Imperial Trans - Antarctic Expedition name or later.
He led the team of scientists and also worked as a geologist. Despite the total failure of the expedition Wordie kept up his scientific research, he hired by observations in oceanography and the Antarctic ice sheet as well as on geological samples collected.
Wordie took part in a total of nine polar expeditions. In the 1920s and 1930s, he traveled to the training of young scientists very often in the Arctic. In this new generation of polar research there were among others Vivian Fuchs, Gino Watkins (1907-1932) and August Courtauld ( Augustine Courtauld, 1904-1959 ). Wordie was considered an expert on polar expeditions, and few British companies in this area were without a prior consultation held by him.
Wordie was Chairman of the Scott Polar Research Institute ( SPRI ) and President of the Royal Geographical Society. During his tenure in the Society he contributed to the successful planning of the ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. In his capacity as Chairman of the SPRI he assisted Fuchs in his crossing of Antarctica, the actual goal of Shackleton's Endurance expedition.
It was also Wordie Master of St John's College in 1959 and beaten for his contribution to British polar research knighted.
Wordie was co-author of the Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbook Series that has appeared during the Second World War.
After James Wordie numerous geographical objects on Svalbard, Jan Mayen, Greenland and Antarctica are named.