Eijkman Point is the extremity of a rocky spur projecting into 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...

 from the west coast 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...

, 4 nautical miles (7 km) south-southeast of Nunez Point

Nunez Point

Nunez Point is a point forming the west extremity of Takaki Promontory on Barison Peninsula on Graham Coast, Graham Land, in Nunez Point is a point forming the west extremity of [[Takaki Promontory]] on [[Barison Peninsula]] on [[Graham Coast]], [[Graham Land]], in Nunez Point is a point forming...

. First mapped by the British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (BGLE) under Rymill 1934-37. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for Christiaan Eijkman

Christiaan Eijkman

Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins...

(1858–1930), Dutch biologist, who in 1890-97 first produced experimental beriberi and initiated work on its prevention.

Maps

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