Benedict Point is a headland about 5 miles (8 km) south of Cape Leblond

Cape Leblond

Cape Leblond is a cape forming the north end of Lavoisier Island, in the Biscoe Islands. Charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1908–10, and named by him for the President of the Norman Geographical Society at Rouen....

 on the east side of Lavoisier Island

Lavoisier Island

Lavoisier Island is an island long and wide, lying between Rabot and Watkins Islands in the Biscoe Islands. It is named Isla Serrano by Chile and isla Mitre by Argentina....

, Biscoe Islands

Biscoe Islands

Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud, Rabot, Lavoisier and Watkins, lying parallel to the W coast of Graham Land and extending some in a NE–SW direction...

. It was mapped from air photos taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–57), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

 for Francis G. Benedict, American physiologist who, with W.O. Atwater, perfected the technique for calorimetric measurement of metabolism.