Stonehouse Bay

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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. Antarctica (4), Adelaide Island, Stonehouse Bay.JPG
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′S68°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

  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


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