# Eights Coast > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Eights_Coast > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Eights_Coast.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eights_Coast > Source revision: 1249142859 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Portion of the coast of West Antarctica **Eights Coast** is a portion of the coast of [West Antarctica](/source/West_Antarctica), between [Cape Waite](/source/Cape_Waite) and [Pfrogner Point](/source/Pfrogner_Point). To the west is the [Walgreen Coast](/source/Walgreen_Coast), and to the east is the [Bryan Coast](/source/Bryan_Coast). It is part of [Ellsworth Land](/source/Ellsworth_Land) and stretches between 103°24'W and 89°35'W. This coast is bordered by [Thurston Island](/source/Thurston_Island), [Abbot Ice Shelf](/source/Abbot_Ice_Shelf) and some islands within the ice shelf, and for most of its length touches the [Bellingshausen Sea](/source/Bellingshausen_Sea) (west of Thurston Island by the [Amundsen Sea](/source/Amundsen_Sea)). Most of Eights Coast is not claimed by any nation. In the east, Eights Coast borders the [sector claimed](/source/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica) by [Chile](/source/Chile) as part of its southernmost province. [Peter I Island](/source/Peter_I_Island), 450 kilometers (280 miles) north of the coast, is claimed by [Norway](/source/Norway) as a dependency. The coast was sighted by members of the [US Antarctic Service](/source/US_Antarctic_Service) by flights from the [USS *Bear*](/source/USS_Bear_(1874)) during February 1940. It was mapped in detail by the [United States Geological Survey](/source/United_States_Geological_Survey) from surveys and from [U.S. Navy](/source/U.S._Navy) air photographs, 1960–1966. Eights Coast was named by the [Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names](/source/Advisory_Committee_on_Antarctic_Names) for [James Eights](/source/James_Eights) of [Albany, New York](/source/Albany%2C_New_York), a [geologist](/source/Geologist) on the ship *Annawan* during 1830, who performed geological investigations of the [South Shetland Islands](/source/South_Shetland_Islands), and who cruised westward on the *Annawan*, in company with the ship *Penguin*, to 103°W. Eights, the earliest American scientist in the Antarctic, discovered the first known [fossils](/source/Fossil) in the Antarctic region, a tree section in the South Shetland Islands. As a result of these investigations Eights, during 1833, published in the *Transactions of the Albany Institute* (Vol. 2) what proved to be remarkably accurate observations and conclusions concerning the natural phenomena of the region.[1][2] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-gnis_1-0)** ["Eights Coast"](https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:4367). *[Geographic Names Information System](/source/Geographic_Names_Information_System)*. [United States Geological Survey](/source/United_States_Geological_Survey), [United States Department of the Interior](/source/United_States_Department_of_the_Interior). Retrieved 27 February 2012. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-gna_2-0)** ["Eights Coast"](https://www.scribd.com/doc/36721395/Gna-GeographicNamesOfTheAntarctic1stEdition1981-djvu). *Gna-GeographicNamesOfTheAntarctic1stEdition1981_djvu*. p. 611. Retrieved 27 February 2012. [73°30′S 96°0′W / 73.500°S 96.000°W / -73.500; -96.000](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Eights_Coast¶ms=73_30_S_96_0_W_scale:4000000_source:GNIS) This article incorporates [public domain material](https://www.usgs.gov/information-policies-and-instructions/copyrights-and-credits) from ["Eights Coast"](https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:4367). *[Geographic Names Information System](/source/Geographic_Names_Information_System)*. [United States Geological Survey](/source/United_States_Geological_Survey). v t e West Antarctica Areas Antarctic Peninsula Graham Land Palmer Land Ellsworth Land English Coast Bryan Coast Eights Coast King Edward VII Land Shirase Coast Marie Byrd Land Walgreen Coast Bakutis Coast Hobbs Coast Ruppert Coast Saunders Coast Queen Elizabeth Land Major ice shelves Abbot Ice Shelf Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf Getz Ice Shelf Larsen Ice Shelf Ross Ice Shelf Sulzberger Ice Shelf Seas and major islands Amundsen Sea Dean Island Grant Island Siple Island Bellingshausen Sea Adelaide Island Alexander Island Latady Island Rothschild Island Sherman Island Smyley Island Spaatz Island Thurston Island Ross Sea Ross Island Scotia Sea Southern Ocean Anvers Island Brabant Island Charcot Island Coronation Island D'Urville Island Elephant Island Joinville Island King George Island Livingston Island Renaud Island Weddell Sea James Ross Island Hearst Island Authority control databases International GND Other NARA This Ellsworth Land location article is a stub. 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