Stonehouse Bay
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Stonehouse Bay (67°21′S 68°5′W / 67.350°S 68.083°W / -67.350; -68.083 ) 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
[edit ]- ^ "Gazetteer - AADC".
- ^ "U.S. Board on Geographic Names".
- ^ 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
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