Takaki Promontory
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Takaki Promontory is a promontory at the northeast side of Leroux Bay
Leroux Bay
Leroux Bay is a bay 9 nautical miles long in a NW-SE direction and averaging 5 nautical miles wide, between Nunez Point and the narrow peninsula surmounted by Magnier Peaks, along the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Charcot for...

, forming the west extremity of Barison Peninsula
Barison Peninsula
Barison Peninsula is the mostly ice-covered peninsula projecting 19 km in northwest direction from Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is 12 km wide between Beascochea Bay to the northeast and Leroux Bay to the southwest...

 on Graham Coast
Graham Coast
Graham Coast is the portion of the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctic Peninsula, extending 172 km between Cape Bellue to the southwest and Cape Renard to the northeast....

, Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

 in Antarctica. First seen and roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition
French Antarctic Expedition
French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....

, 1903–05, under Charcot. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 after Baron Kanehiro Takaki (1849–1920), Director-General
Director-general
The term director-general is a title given the highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution.-European Union:...

 of the Medical Department of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes...

, the first man to prevent beriberi empirically by dietary additions, in 1882.

Maps

  • British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1971.
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