Stonehouse Bay is a bay in Antarctica on the west side of Laubeuf Fjord

Laubeuf Fjord

Laubeuf Fjord is a sound in Antarctica, 25 miles long in a north-south direction and averaging 10 miles 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...

, indenting the east coast of Adelaide Island

Adelaide Island

Adelaide Island or Isla Adelaida or Isla Belgrano is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The island lies within the Argentine, British and Chilean Antarctic claims, at .Adelaide Island was...

 between Hunt Peak

Hunt Peak

Hunt Peak is a triangular rock peak, 610 m, marking the north side of the entrance to Stonehouse Bay on the east coast of Adelaide Island. Discovered and first roughly surveyed in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot. Resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

 and Sighing Peak

Sighing Peak

Sighing Peak is a prominent, isolated, rocky peak, 640 m, at the south side of the entrance to Stonehouse Bay on the east side of Adelaide Island, Antarctica. It was first sighted and surveyed in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot...

. The bay is 5 nautical miles (9 km) wide. It was first sighted and surveyed in January 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....

 under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. The bay was named for Bernard Stonehouse

Bernard Stonehouse

Bernard Stonehouse is a British scientist who specialised in polar research and popular science. He was born in Hull on 1 May 1926. He joined the Royal Navy in 1944, and served from 1946–1950 for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

 of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), a meteorologist in 1947-48 and biologist in 1949 at Stonington Island

Stonington Island

Stonington Island is a rocky island lying 1 mile northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. Stonington Island is located at . Stonington Island, 0.4 miles long from northwest to southeast and 0.2 miles wide formerly connected by a drifted snow...

 and leader of the FIDS sledge party which resurveyed the bay in 1948.

Adelaide Island's largest glacier, the Shambles Glacier

Shambles Glacier

Shambles Glacier is a steep glacier 4 miles long and 6 miles wide, with very prominent hummocks and crevasses, flowing east between Mount Bouvier and Mount Mangin into Stonehouse Bay on the east side of Adelaide Island...

, calves into Stonehouse Bay.