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in the Antarctic region, a tree section in the South Shetland Islands. As a result of these investigations Eights, during 1833, published in the
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and some islands within the ice shelf, and for most of its length touches the
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and stretches between 103°24'W and 89°35'W. This coast is bordered by
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during 1830, who performed geological investigations of the
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air photographs, 1960–1966. Eights Coast was named by the
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during February 1940. It was mapped in detail by the
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Index

West Antarctica
Cape Waite
Pfrogner Point
Walgreen Coast
Bryan Coast
Ellsworth Land
Thurston Island
Abbot Ice Shelf
Bellingshausen Sea
Amundsen Sea
sector claimed
Chile
Peter I Island
Norway
US Antarctic Service
USS Bear
United States Geological Survey
U.S. Navy
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
James Eights
Albany, New York
geologist
South Shetland Islands
fossils
"Eights Coast"
Geographic Names Information System
United States Geological Survey
United States Department of the Interior
"Eights Coast"
public domain material

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