5-605: 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
10-648: Is Day Island , followed by Wyatt Island a bit further south. Still further south are the smaller Webb Island and Pinero Island . There are also various very small, mostly rocky islets, such as the Brockhamp Islands , Covey Rocks , Quilp Rock and Killingbeck Island . Several large glaciers calve into Laubeuf Fjord. From the Arrowsmith Peninsula these are the Ward Glacier , the Vallot Glacier and
15-457: Is a sound in Antarctica , 40 kilometres (25 miles) long in a north-south direction and averaging 16 km (10 mi) wide, lying between the east-central portion of Adelaide Island and the southern part of Arrowsmith Peninsula , Graham Land . It connects Hanusse Bay to the north with Marguerite Bay to the south. The southern 'border' between Laubeuf Fjord and Marguerite Bay is formed by
20-567: The line between Rothera Point , Adelaide Island, and Cape Sáenz , which is the southernmost point of the Arrowsmith Peninsula. The fjord was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition , 1908–10, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot , and named by him for Maxime Laubeuf , a French marine engineer who supervised building the engine for the ship Pourquoi-Pas . There are several islands in Laubeuf Fjord. The largest and northernmost of these
25-646: 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. Adelaide Island's largest glacier, the Shambles Glacier , calves into Stonehouse Bay. This Adelaide Island location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Laubeuf Fjord Laubeuf Fjord
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