Bernard Stonehouse

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Burton, Robert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2015
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Galapagos; Stonehouse; Antarc*; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247415000042; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247415000042

Bernard Stonehouse (Fig. 1) died on 12 November 2014 at the age of 88. Best known for his pioneering studies of penguins, Stonehouse's proud claim was that he had been pecked by all the world's 17 species except one (the Galapagos penguin Spheniscus mendiculus ). He was one of the few people to have spent three consecutive years in the Antarctic and was latterly involved with the Antarctic tourist industry both as a lecturer aboard cruise ships and as leader of a long-term study on its ecological impact.