Laws Glacier

Laws Glacier

Laws Glacier (coord|60|38|S|45|38|W|type:glacier_region:AQ|display=inline,title) is a confluent glacier system which flows into Marshall Bay on the south coast of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands. Surveyed in 1948-49 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Richard M. Laws of the FIDS, leader and biologist at Signy Island base in 1948 and 1949, and at South Georgia in 1951.


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