[1] Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.

The Duke of Orléans Land is bounded in the north by the Zachariæ Isstrøm, beyond which rises Lambert Land, in the east by the Jøkel Bay of the Greenland Sea, in the south by the Kofoed-Hansen Glacier, beyond which rises Nordmarken.

[2] The Bildsøe Nunatak rises roughly in the central area.

[3] Duke of Orléans Land was named in 1905 by the Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans during his Arctic Expedition on ship Belgica, when he explored parts of the northeastern coast of Greenland.

Following consultations with Belgian explorer Adrien de Gerlache (1866–1934), the 1906–08 Danmark Expedition placed the name "Duke of Orléans Land" in the present location.