Information About

Mount Wordie

Mount Wordie

Region:
  • Hoonah-Angoon (CA)
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 4472 ft (1363.07 m)
About

In Glacier Bay National Monument, 5 miles northwest of Mount Merriam and 81 miles northwest of Hoonah, St. Elias Mountains. (AK-T1)

History of Mount Wordie

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)