Portal Point is a narrow point in the northeast part of Reclus Peninsula

Reclus Peninsula

Reclus Peninsula is a peninsula 7 miles long which borders the W side of Charlotte Bay, on the W coast of Graham Land. First charted in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, who named the N extremity "Cap Reclus" for Elisee Reclus , French geographer and author...

, on the west coast of 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 1956, an Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) hut was established on the point, from which a route to the plateau was established. So named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 because the point is the "gateway" of the route.