No major air routes or supply roads to Antarctic stations pass close to the volcano, and some parts of the edifice are accessible only by helicopter. The name of the volcano refers to the takahe, a flightless nearly extinct bird from New Zealand; members of the 1957-1958 Marie Byrd Land Traverse party nicknamed an aircraft that had resupplied them takahe. Mount Takahe was first visited in 1957-1958 and again in 1968.