Stonehouse Bay

Stonehouse Bay
	Stonehouse Bay (right)
Waters	Cole Channel
Land mass	Adelaide Island , West Antarctica
Geographical location	67 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 68 ° 4 ′ 59 ″ W Coordinates: 67 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 68 ° 4 ′ 59 ″ W
width	8 kilometers
Tributaries	Shambles Glacier

The Stonehouse Bay is an 8 km wide bay on the east coast of the West Antarctic Adelaide Island . It is located between Cabo Curuzú Cuatiá southeast of Hunt Peak in the north and the headland with Sighing Peak in the south.

It was discovered and measured for the first time in 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Namesake is the British polar scientist Bernard Stonehouse (1926-2014), who worked for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 and 1948 as a meteorologist and in 1949 as a biologist at the station on Stonington Island and in 1948 led a sled team to survey the bay.

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