Cape Bakkai

Cape Bakkai (抜海岬, Bakkai-misaki) is a small promontory on the Sea of Japan coast facing towards the islands of Rishiri and Rebun in Wakkanai, Hokkaidō, Japan. On the south side of the cape is Bakkai Port, where each winter spotted seals that float in on drift ice take shelter.[1][2] A short distance inland, on the other side of Prefectural Road 106 (ja), is the Bakkai Rock Shelter Site. Bakkai is a nigoried form of the Ainu pakkai, meaning something carried on one's back like a child: Bakkai rock, which rises to a height of approximately 30 metres (98 ft), has the appearance of a smaller rock atop one that is larger.[3][4]

Spotted seals in the harbour

See also

References
  1. 抜海港 ゴマフアザラシの越冬 [Bakkai Port: Spotted Seals Take Shelter for the Winter] (in Japanese). Wakkanai City. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  2. 「林蔵ウオークinわっかない2011」行程表 ["Rinzō Walk in Wakkanai, 2011" - Itinerary] (PDF) (in Japanese). Wakkanai City. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  3. 抜海岩陰遺跡 [Bakkai Rock Shelter Site] (in Japanese). Wakkanai City. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  4. Batchelor, John (1905). An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary (including a Grammar of the Ainu Language) (2 ed.). Tokyo: Methodist Publishing House. pp. 59, 334.


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