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Rahir Point
Rahir Point
is a point
marking
the
northeast
end of a small
peninsula
which
extends
into
Flandres Bay
just
north
of
Thomson Cove
, on the northeast
coast
of
Kiev Peninsula
,
Graham Land
. First charted by the
Belgian Antarctic Expedition
under
Gerlache
, 1897–99, and named "Cap Rahir,"
probably
for
Maurice Rahir
,
Belgian
geographer
and member of the
Belgian Royal Geographical Society
.