Stonehouse Bay

Stonehouse Bay is the large body of water on the right in this aerial picture of a part of Adelaide Island's east coast. Click on the picture for a detailed description of the other geographical features.

Stonehouse Bay (67°21′S 68°5′W) is a bay in Antarctica on the west side of Laubeuf Fjord, indenting the east coast of Adelaide Island between Hunt Peak and Sighing Peak. The bay is 5 nautical miles (9 km) wide. It was first sighted and surveyed in January 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. The bay was named for Bernard Stonehouse of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), a meteorologist in 1947-48 and biologist in 1949 at Stonington Island and leader of the FIDS sledge party which resurveyed the bay in 1948.[1][2]

Adelaide Island's largest glacier, the Shambles Glacier, calves into Stonehouse Bay.[3]

References

1. "Gazetteer - AADC".
2. "U.S. Board on Geographic Names".
3. British Antarctic Survey topographic map (Satellite Image Map) SQ 19-20/14 (Extended), Edition 1, 2010, Adelaide Island and Arrowsmith Peninsula, Scale 1:250.000