COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

between Hunt Peak and Sighing Peak, Laubeuf Fjord, E Adelaide Island, N of Wright Peninsula, was roughly charted by FAE, 1908-10, in January 1909 (Charcot, 1912, Pl.2); resurveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in October 1948 and named after Dr Bernard Stonehouse (b. 1926), FIDS meterological observer and biologist, "Stonington Island", 1947-50; biologist, South Georgia, 1953-55; Reader in Zoology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1961-69, and zoologist, "Scott Base", Ross Dependency, summers 1961-65; Chairman, Postgraduate School of Environmental Science, Bradford University, 1969-82; Editor, Polar Record, from 1982 (APC, 1955, p.20; BA chart 3570, 21.ix.1957); further surveyed by FIDS from Adelaide, 1961-62. Storehouse [sic] Bay (BA, 1974, p.204).

Bay 5 mi wide, indenting the E coast of Adelaide Island between Hunt Peak and Sighing Peak. First sighted and surveyed in 1909 by the FrAE under Charcot. Named for Bernard Stonehouse of FIDS, meteorologist in 1947 and 1948 and biologist in 1949 at Stonington Island; leader of the FIDS sledge party which resurveyed the bay in 1948.