Law Dome is a large ice dome which rises to directly south of

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. The feature was roughly mapped by the

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from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and has been the subject of intensive glaciological and geophysical surveys by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions between 1962 and 1965. It was named by the

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for

Phillip Law Phillip Garth Law, AC, CBE, FAA, FTSE (21 April 1912 – 28 February 2010) was an Australian scientist and explorer who served as director of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) from 1949 to 1966. Early life Law was ...

, Director of the

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from 1949 to 1966. The dome is bounded by the Totten Glacier to the east and the

Vanderford Glacier Vanderford Glacier () is a glacier about 8 km (5 mi) wide flowing northwest into the southeast side of Vincennes Bay, slightly south of the Windmill Islands. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Ben ...

to the west. The dome itself is host to the Williamson Glacier and several other much smaller glaciers on its northern face.

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Ice caps of Antarctica Bodies of ice of Wilkes Land {{WilkesLand-geo-stub