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In March 2008, the British Antarctic Survey reported that it appeared ready to break away from the Antarctic Peninsula.[1] [failed verification By April 2009 it had done so, vanishing completely.[2]
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 the Scientific Staff of the British expedition, 1914–16, under Ernest Shackleton .
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^ Fox, Maggie (April 4, 2009). "An Antarctic ice shelf has disappeared: scientists" . Reuters .
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