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Benedict Glacier

Coordinates: 79°25′N 78°35′W / 79.417°N 78.583°W / 79.417; -78.583
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Benedict Glacier (79°25′N 78°35′W / 79.417°N 78.583°W / 79.417; -78.583) is a glacier on central Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.

Geologist William Herbert Hobbs wrote in 1911 the Benedict Glacier provided an "excellent" example of a "lateral glacial stream flowing between ice and rock".[1]

References

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  1. ^ Hobbs, William Herbert (1911). Characteristics of Existing Glaciers. New York: Macmillan. pp. 169–171. LCCN 11011341.