The Wordie Ice Shelf ( 69°15′S 67°45′W / 69.250°S 67.750°W / -69.250; -67.750 ) was a confluent glacier projecting as an ice shelf into the SE part of Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell , along the western coast of Antarctic Peninsula .
4-549: The Bugge Islands are a small group of ice-covered islands lying close off the front of Wordie Ice Shelf and between 7 and 20 km (4 and 11 nmi) northwest of Mount Guernsey , off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . They were first seen from the air and photographed by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1936, and later roughly mapped from the photographs. They were observed in 1947 from
8-667: The Port of Beaumont, Texas by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) under Finn Ronne , who named these islands for his niece, Ruth Bugge , who supplied woolen clothing from Norway for the RARE. The group was also visited by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1947, which named the islands Isla Aldea , Isla Eleuterio Ramírez , Isla Latorre , after heroes of the naval battle of Iquique. From North to South
12-676: The Antarctic Peninsula. By April 2009 it had done so, vanishing completely. Discovered by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill, 1934–37, who named this feature for Sir James Wordie , Honorary Secretary (later President) of the Royal Geographical Society , member of the Discovery Committee, and chairman of the Scott Polar Research Institute . He also had been geologist and Chief of
16-505: The islands of the group are: [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "Bugge Islands" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . This Fallières Coast location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wordie Ice Shelf In March 2008, the British Antarctic Survey reported that it appeared ready to break away from
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