It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park area.

[1] It was named Dove Bai by the Second German North Polar Expedition led by Carl Koldewey after German physicist and meteorologist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803–79).

[2] Dove Bay is a large bay located between Cape Bismarck in Germania Land to the north, a complex cluster of coastal islands to the west, Store Koldewey to the east and Adolf S. Jensen Land to the southwest.

To the south, the bay opens to the Greenland Sea through the Storebaelt (Store Bælt) strait.

[4] The Danmarkshavn weather station is located north of the bay on the southern shore of the Germania Land Peninsula.