Name details

Law Base

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

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

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Informal Antarctic/sub-Antarctic Gazetteer Id 51027

Feature type: Refuge

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Informal Antarctic/sub-Antarctic Gazetteer.

Narrative

A summer-only facility established in the Larsemann Hills in 1987

Named For

Named after Phillip Law, Director of Australia’s Antarctic Division between 1949 and 1966

Location

Latitude:

69° 23' 18.8" S

-69.38857°

Unknown precision

Longitude:

76° 22' 50.1" E

76.38059°

Unknown precision

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id WV2_18Jan2011_p_orc.bsq not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )

Source Scale:

1:5000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

AADC

Source Publisher:

Australian Antarctic Division

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

Unknown

Display Scales

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For example, selecting 'Aus_display_scale_20M' would only return names that would appear on a 1:20 million scale map.

Aus_display_scale_20M:	No	Aus_display_scale_10M:	No
Aus_display_scale_5M:	No	Aus_display_scale_2M:	No
Aus_display_scale_1M:	No	Aus_display_scale_500k:	No
Aus_display_scale_250k:	No	Aus_display_scale_100k:	No
Aus_display_scale_50k:	No	Aus_display_scale_25k:	Yes
Aus_display_scale_10k:	Yes	Aus_display_scale_5k:	Yes
Aus_display_scale_1k:	Yes

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