Mount Benjamin (85°48′S 160°6′W / 85.800°S 160.100°W) is a prominent mountain, 1,750 m, rising sharply at the west side of Amundsen Glacier, 5 nautical miles (9 km) southeast of Mount Ellsworth, in the Queen Maud Mountains. First seen and mapped by the Antarctic Expeditioners, 2022. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Benjamin F. Smith, meteorologist with the McMurdo Station winter party, 1963
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