Carpenter Bay


Carpenter Bay (52˚14'00" 131˚07'00" S of Collison Bay, SE end of Moresby I, QCI). William Benjamin Carpenter, CB (1813–85), an English physician and noted biologist and author, was appointed professor of physiology at the Royal Institution in 1844. He then served as registrar of the Univ College of London, 1856–79. Carpenter’s ideas on the unconscious and the important role it played in ordinary life were influential. He also took a great interest in marine zoology and oceanography,...

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