Benson Glacier

Benson Glacier is a glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica, that drains the eastern part of the Flight Deck Névé, an elevated ice accumulation basin about five by three nautical miles across. It flows roughly 22 kilometers between the Fry and Mackay Glaciers before reaching the northern part of Granite Harbour on the Ross Sea, where it ends in a floating ice tongue. The glacier descends past nunataks and peaks, including Mount Nespelen at 1,560 meters and Mount Morrison at 1,895 meters, with prominent icefalls along its course. It was mapped in 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party during the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and named for Noel Benson, a former professor of geology at the University of Otago. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/