COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

A major alpine glacier, 25 miles long between the Fry and Mackay Glaciers, reaching the coast on the north side of Granite Harbour. It rises from a snow divide with the Gran Glacier and flows east, draining the north slopes of Mts Woolnough and Morrison. Near Black Pudding this stream becomes very thin and is joined by ice flowing from a broad nerve between Razorback and Mt Nespelen. This at present constitutes the major stream. After losing a large distributary, the Hunt Glacier, south of Mt Perserverence, the Benson Glacier descends steeply into a narrow valley, turns south at Tiger Island and reaches sea level where it forms a floating tongue that merges near Lion Island with the distributary Hunt Glacier. Surveyed in October by the Northern Survey Party of the NZTAE, 1956-58, and named by them after the late Professor W N Benson, formerly Professor of Geology at the University of Otago, whose publications included at major contribution to the petrology of Victoria Land.

A glacier c. 12 mi long, draining the E part of Flight Deck Neve and continuing E between the Fry and Mackay Glaciers into the N part of Granite Harbor where it forms a floating tongue. Mapped in 1957 by the N.Z. Northern Survey Party of the CTAE (1956-58), and indicated as a somewhat longer glacier including the present Midship Glacier (q.v.). Named by the party after W.N. Benson, formerly professor of geology at the University of Otago, N.Z., whose publications include a major contribution to the petrology of Victoria Land.

A highly saline rectangular lake in a shallow depression about 1 km south-east of Leb'ed Lake in the Vestfold Hills. The lake was one of several lakes investigated by ANARE biologists wintering at Davis in 1974.