Benedict Point

	Benedict Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	66 ° 9 ′ S , 66 ° 35 ′ W Coordinates: 66 ° 9 ′ S , 66 ° 35 ′ W
location	Lavoisier Island , Biscoe Islands
Waters	Crystal sound
Waters 2	Bahia Howard

The Benedict Point is a headland on the east side of Lavoisier Island in the group of Biscoe Islands west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 8 km south of Cape Leblond and limits the entrance from Crystal Sound to Bahía Howard to the south .

The cape was mapped during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the American chemist and physiologist Francis Gano Benedict (1870-1957), who at the beginning of the 20th century, together with Wilbur Olin Atwater (1844-1907), used calorimetry for clarification of metabolic processes.

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