The ill-fated Denmark expedition 1906-1908 mapped the whole fjord from its mouth in the east, showing its true extent.

The three expedition members who had explored the fjord on dogsleds, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Niels Peter Høeg Hagen and Jørgen Brønlund, were not able to return to their base and died.

[4] North of the fjord, in southern Peary Land, there are remains of dwellings with elliptical floor plan, built by Early Paleoeskimo Independence I culture.

These people used tools made from rocks and bones, and subsisted from hunting wildlife like musk oxen and Arctic hares.

In both cases it is unclear whether discoveries in other areas of North Greenland and on Ellesmere Island should be attributed to other cultures.