Name details

Law Dome

Law Dome (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Law Dome  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 412

Feature type: Dome

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

An ice dome on the Budd Coast of Wilkes Land, centred about 125 km ESE of Casey Station. The dome is 1395 m high (per 1:1M map sheet SQ49-50). The presence and nature of the dome have been revealed as the result of intensive glaciological and geophysical survey by ANARE parties since 1962.

Named For

Named after Dr P.G. Law, Director of the Antarctic Division, Australian Department of External Affairs 1949-66.

Location

Latitude:
66° 44' 00.0" S
-66.73331°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
112° 50' 00.0" E
112.83331°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
1395 m
Accurate to 100m

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Windmill Islands 1:50000 GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( Wind50k - Windmill Islands 1:50000 Topographic GIS Dataset )
Source Scale:
1:5000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
10-Aug-1966

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