Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

This nunatak was named by Ejnar Mikkelsen after his ship during the 1909-12 Alabama Expedition.

[3] Mikkelsen and Iver Iversen went up the Storstrommen to reach the head of the Danmark Fjord, leaving this nunatak on the left in their arduous dogsled journey over the ice.

[4] Few details are known about the circumstances of sighting and mapping of this nunatak, because Mikkelsen's diary, which had been kept in a cache at a rocky islet in Skaer Fjord, was destroyed by a polar bear.

It rises at the southwest end of Duke of Orleans Land, west of the area where the Storstrommen begins to flow southwards.