Law Dome Summit (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Law Dome Summit (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: AWS
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The automatic weather station was established in April 1986. It is located at an elevation of 1395m (per 1:1M map sheet SQ49-50).
It is named after Dr Phillip Law who joined the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) in July 1947 as Senior Scientific Officer. In January 1949 he became Director of the Antarctic Division, a post held until 1966. Law established Mawson, the first permanent scientific station on the Antarctic continent in 1954. He later established Davis Station in 1957 to participate in the International Geophysical Year (IGY) 1957-58. In 1959 he acdcepted custody of the American IGY Station Wilkes for the Australian Government. Law took the opportunity of relief voyages to explore the coast of the Australian Antarctic Territory and beyond, between 450 East and 1670 East. During these voyages, using aircraft, he obtained photographs of the whole coast and made landings at many places where astronomical fixes were taken, magnetic and gravity measurements obtained and a geological survey carried out.
No images of this place could be found.
| Aus_display_scale_20M: | No | Aus_display_scale_10M: | No | ||
| Aus_display_scale_5M: | No | Aus_display_scale_2M: | Yes | ||
| Aus_display_scale_1M: | Yes | Aus_display_scale_500k: | Yes | ||
| Aus_display_scale_250k: | Yes | Aus_display_scale_100k: | Yes | ||
| Aus_display_scale_50k: | Yes | Aus_display_scale_25k: | No | ||
| Aus_display_scale_10k: | No | Aus_display_scale_5k: | No | ||
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