This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it for Lieutenant Emile Danco who died on the expedition.
[1] The coast is bordered by the Aguirre Passage which separates it from Lemaire Island.
[2] The Danco Coast Tectonic Block includes the Upper Permian-Triassic Trinity Peninsula Group, consisting of over 1000 m of metaturbidites folded during the Gondwanide orogeny.
These two groups were intruded by the Berriasian-Cenomanian granite and gabbro sills of the Andean Instrusive Suite.
A system of hypabbysal dykes intruded during the Late Cretaceous or Tertiary.