Laws Glacier

Laws Glacier
Map showing the location of Laws Glacier
Location of Laws Glacier in the South Orkney Islands
Type confluent glacier
Location South Orkney Islands
Coordinates 60°38′S 45°38′W / 60.633°S 45.633°W / -60.633; -45.633
Thickness unknown
Terminus Marshall Bay
Status unknown

Laws Glacier (60°38′S 45°38′W / 60.633°S 45.633°W / -60.633; -45.633Coordinates: 60°38′S 45°38′W / 60.633°S 45.633°W / -60.633; -45.633) is a confluent glacier system which flows into Marshall Bay on the south coast of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica. It was surveyed in 1948–49 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Richard M. Laws of the FIDS, leader and biologist at Signy Research Station in 1948 and 1949, and at South Georgia in 1951.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ "Laws Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-06-05.

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