It was named in 1992 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after E. Imre Friedmann, a biologist at the Polar Desert Research Center, Florida State University, who in virtually every austral summer, 1976–87, led United States Antarctic Research Program field parties in the study of microorganisms in rocks of the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
Green was co-editor (with E. Imre Friedmann) of Physical and Biogeochemical Processes in Antarctic Lakes, Antarctic Research Series, Vol.
Imre E. Quastler | Daniel Friedmann | Imre Palló | Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann | Imre Thököly | Imre Palló (conductor) | Imre Mécs | Imre Madách | Imre Madach | Imre Kertész | Imre Friedmann | Imre Csiszár | Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric |
The name was proposed to the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names by biologist Imre Friedmann who established a United States Antarctic Research Program field camp on this terrace in December 1980 for the study of microbial flora living in rocks.