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

The fjord was first surveyed by Carl Koldewey during the 1869–70 Second German North Polar Expedition.

Koldewey named it after Austrian cartographer Field Marshal August von Fligely (1810–1879).

[1] There are a number of hunter cabins in the shores of the fjord.

[2] The fjord is about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) wide in its widest part and stretches from north to south for about 40 kilometres (25 mi).