Lassiter Coast
(Palmer Land)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 73° 45' S 62° Wpart of E coast of Palmer Land and W coas of Weddell Sea from Cape Mackintosh to Cape Adams, was photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service in December 1940 and by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in November 1947, and roughly surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey-the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition from 'Stonington Island', 1947-48; called in its S part Isaiah Bowman Coast (Bowman Coast, q.v.) or Weddell Coast; named Lassiter Coast after Capt. (later Lieut. Col.) James W. Lassiter, USAAF (USAF), chief pilot of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, who played a major part in the aerial exploration of this coast and of Orville Coast. The coast was further photographed from the air by the United States Navy, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by the United States Geological Survey.