Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Law Base (USA) | 69° 23' 00.0" S | 76° 23' 00.0" E | Station |
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Name ID: 136153
Place ID: 18360
A summer-only facility established by Australia in the Larsemann Hills in 1987 and named after Phillip Law, Director of Australia’s Antarctic Division between 1949 and 1966. Under a Memorandum of Understanding between Australia and the Romanian Antarctic Foundation, Romania was able to utilize the facility between 2005 and 2015 (see variant name). That MOU expired in 2015. Station and camp names and locations are included in the Geographic Names Information System as a convenience for people searching for places in Antarctica, but that the US does not consider station or camp names to be equivalent to geographic features that are named through a BGN-approved process. |
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