Wilkins Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

 between Cape Agassiz

Cape Agassiz

Cape Agassiz is the east tip of Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula, a narrow ice-drowned spur extending east from the main mountain axis of Antarctic Peninsula between Mobiloil Inlet and Revelle Inlet. The cape is the east end of a line from Cape Jeremy dividing Graham Land and Palmer Land. It was...

 and Cape Boggs

Cape Boggs

Cape Boggs is a bold, ice-covered headland marking the east extremity of Eielson Peninsula, on the east coast of Palmer Land. Discovered by members of East Base of the United States Antarctic Service who charted this coast by land and from the air in 1940. Named for S.W. Boggs, Geographer, Dept...

. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) for Sir Hubert Wilkins

Hubert Wilkins

Sir Hubert Wilkins MC & Bar was an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer and photographer.-Early life:...

, who in a pioneer Antarctic exploratory flight on December 20, 1928, flew southward from Deception Island and crossed the Antarctic Peninsula to its east side. He continued southward to Stefansson Strait

Stefansson Strait

Stefansson Strait is an ice-filled strait 35 nautical miles long and 3 to 10 nautical miles wide, between the east coast of Palmer Land and Hearst Island. This strait was first sighted by Sir Hubert Wilkins at the south end of his flight of December 20, 1928, and was named by him for Vilhjalmur...

 and Hearst Island

Hearst Island

Hearst Island is an ice-covered, dome-shaped island lying east of Cape Rymill, in the Weddell Sea, off the eastern coast of Palmer Land. The island is long, in a North-South direction, wide, and rises to ....

, which lie midway along Wilkins Coast.