There are remains of ancient Inuit settlements of the southern group in Imaarsivik, a coastal island at the entrance of the fjord.

[2] The fjord was named after Arctic explorer Wilhelm August Graah of the Danish Navy, who was the first to map this area of the coast of Greenland during an 1828–31 expedition in search of the legendary Eastern Norse Settlement.

[3] Finnsbu was a Norwegian weather and radio station opened on the shore of the fjord by Finn Devold on behalf of the Arctic Trading Co. Devold had first chosen a site in Timmiarmiut Fjord when he arrived in 1932 on Ship Heimen from Tromsø, but then moved to this site to establish the station.

[7] The fjord is entered between Cape Langenaes to the south and the 300 metres (980 feet) high coastal island (or peninsula) of Imaarsivik to the north.

Finnsbu, the former Norwegian meteorological and radio station, was located on the southwestern shore of the fjord, about 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) northwest of Cape Langenaes.