Dr Bernard Stonehouse

Dr. Bernard Stonehouse first visited Antarctica in 1946 as a Royal Navy pilot for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (later the British Antarctic Survey). He studied penguins and seals on the Antarctic Peninsula, king penguins on South Georgia, and deer, Dall's sheep and other sub-polar species in the Yukon. He taught at universities in Britain, New Zealand and North America and was attached to the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, where, among other things, he edited the prestigious journal, Polar Record. His books include Animals of the Antarctic and Penguins and Sea Mammals of the World.