Law Promontory [SEP] continent
Law Promontory
Law Promontory in Antarctica was named after Phillip Law, who flew over and photographed this feature in February 1954.
The promontory is about long, situated just west and north-west of Stefansson Bay. 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 party led by Peter W. Crohn in
" promontory on Oronce Fine's world map, and indicates that the Dieppe Maps appear to have conflated Marco Polo's Greater Java with Fine's "Regio Patalis" and "Brasielie Regio". On the Dieppe Maps, the great promontory of (Greater Java) extends, like the "Regio Patalis," northward from the Austral continent. The evolution of Fine's into may have been influenced by the phrase used by Ludovico di Varthema, an Italian from Bologna who made a voyage in 1505 from Borneo to Java, who