[1] This extreme northern area was sparsely inhabited about 2,400 years ago.

The ruins near the head of Frigg Fjord are the northernmost remains of settlements in human history.

[2] This region was named after Danish author Johannes V. Jensen (1873–1950) who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944.

[citation needed] Johannes V. Jensen Land is a mountainous region, with the Roosevelt Range running across it.

[5] Owing to a structural continuum in the mountains between Johannes V. Jensen Land in the east and Nansen Land in the west, American geologist William E. Davies called the wider range the "Nansen-Jensen Alps" in a work he published in 1972.