Benedict Glacier () is a

glacier A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...

on central

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, Canada. Geologist

William Herbert Hobbs William Herbert Hobbs, Ph.D. ( Worcester, Mass., July 2, 1864 – Ann Arbor, MI, January 1, 1953) was an American geologist. Background and education William Herbert Hobbs, geologist and leader of four expeditions to Greenland, was born in Worce ...

wrote in 1911 the Benedict Glacier provided an "excellent" example of a "lateral glacial stream flowing between ice and rock".

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Glaciers of Qikiqtaaluk Region Ellesmere Island Arctic Cordillera {{canada-glacier-stub