The Blosseville Coast is steep and difficult to access by ship owing to the great number of ice floes, frequent fog, dangerous currents and lack of good anchorages.

This stretch of coast is named after French Lieutenant Jules de Blosseville, commander of "La Lilloise".

[3] The coast was finally explored and mapped in 1900 by Georg Carl Amdrup in the course of the Carlsbergfund Expedition to East Greenland.

[4] The Blosseville Coast is located between Kangerlussuaq Fjord in the SW and Cape Brewster at the entrance to Scoresby Sound to the NE.

Amdrup initially had used the name for a stretch of coast between Barclay Bay and Cape Vedel.