Laws Glacier

Laws Glacier
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location	Coronation Island , South Orkney Islands
Coordinates	60 ° 38 ′ S , 45 ° 37 ′ W Coordinates: 60 ° 38 ′ S , 45 ° 37 ′ W
drainage	Marshall Bay

The Laws Glacier is a confluent glacier system in the south of Coronation Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It flows south to Marshall Bay .

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) carried out surveys between 1948 and 1949. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on March 31, 1955. It is named after the British biologist Richard Maitland Law (1926-2014), head of the FIDS station on Signy Island from 1948 to 1949, the one on South Georgia in 1951 and from 1973 to 1987 director of the British Antarctic Survey .

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