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Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
was named after
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 ...
, who flew over and photographed this feature in February 1954. The
promontory A promontory is a raised mass of land that projects into a lowland or a body of water (in which case it is a peninsula). Most promontories either are formed from a hard ridge of rock that has resisted the erosive forces that have removed the so ...
is about long, situated just west and north-west of
Stefansson Bay Stefansson Bay is a bay indenting the coast for between Law Promontory and Fold Island. Mawson of the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) applied the name to a sweep of the coast west of Cape Wilkins which he obs ...
. This feature appears to have been first mapped with an accuracy by William Scoresby in February 1936. It was photographed from the air by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936–37) and subsequently plotted on the Hansen Atlas Sheet 5 as Breidhovde. It was first visited by an
ANARE The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) is the historical name for the Australia: Antarctic Program#Australian Antarctic program, Australian Antarctic Program (AAp) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic D ...
party led by Peter W. Crohn in May 1956. On its southern side is
Cirque Fjord Cirque Fjord () is an ice-filled inlet on the south side of Law Promontory opening into Stefansson Bay in Enderby Land Enderby Land is a projecting landmass of Antarctica. Its shore extends from Shinnan Glacier at about to William Scoresby Bay ...
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Blackrock Head Blackrock Head () is a conspicuous coastal rock outcrop on the eastern part of Law Promontory, northwest of Tryne Point in Antarctica. It was discovered in February 1936 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the ''William Scoresby Willia ...
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Tryne Point Tryne Point () is a rocky point at the east extremity of Law Promontory in Antarctica, forming the west side of the entrance of Stefansson Bay. Charted by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Norwegian expedition under Christ ...
Promontories of Antarctica Landforms of Kemp Land {{KempLand-geo-stub