Description
In Glacier Bay National Monument, 5 miles northwest of Mount Merriam and 81 miles northwest of Hoonah, St. Elias Mountains. (AK-T1)
History
Named by members of the Glacier Bay Expedition of 1941 (Field, 1947, map) for James Mann Wordie, a British glacier geologist and polar explorer, who visited Muir Glacier in 1913. He was a Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17, and on several expeditions to Greenland. (AK-T1)