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Glacier in Antarctica Not to be confused with Law Glacier.

Laws Glacier
Location of Laws Glacier in the South Orkney Islands
Type	confluent glacier
Location	South Orkney Islands
Coordinates	60°38′S 45°38′W / 60.633°S 45.633°W / -60.633; -45.633
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Marshall Bay
Status	unknown

Laws Glacier (60°38′S 45°38′W / 60.633°S 45.633°W / -60.633; -45.633) is a confluent glacier system which flows into Marshall Bay on the south coast of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica. It was surveyed in 1948–49 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Richard M. Laws of the FIDS, leader and biologist at Signy Research Station in 1948 and 1949, and at South Georgia in 1951.

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Miscellaneous	List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands List of Antarctic ice rises List of Antarctic ice shelves List of Antarctic ice streams List of glaciers List of subantarctic glaciers

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