In the east, Eights Coast borders the sector claimed by Chile as part of its southernmost province.
Peter I Island, 450 kilometers (280 miles) north of the coast, is claimed by Norway as a dependency.
The coast was sighted by members of the US Antarctic Service by flights from the USS Bear during February 1940.
Eights Coast was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for James Eights of Albany, New York, a geologist on the ship Annawan during 1830, who performed geological investigations of the South Shetland Islands, and who cruised westward on the Annawan, in company with the ship Penguin, to 103°W.
As a result of these investigations Eights, during 1833, published in the Transactions of the Albany Institute (Vol.