Mount Benjamin


Mount Benjamin is a prominent mountain, 1,750 m, rising sharply at the west side of Amundsen Glacier, 5 nautical miles southeast of Mount Ellsworth, in the Queen Maud Mountains. First seen and mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Benjamin F. Smith, meteorologist with the McMurdo Station winter party, 1963.