[1] Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area.

[2] This fjord was named by a Swedish Arctic explorer Alfred Gabriel Nathorst after a Stockholm businessman Seth Michael Kempe (1857– 1946), during the Swedish Greenland Expedition in search of survivors of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897.

Kempe was one of Nathorst's most generous supporters and also a good friend of expedition surveyor Per Dusén.

[3] In 1899, while first exploring King Oscar Fjord, Nathorst wanted to reach the sea through Davy Sound, which had been put on the map by William Scoresby in 1822, but the sound was blocked by ice.

Its mouth opens at the western end of Ella Island, where the Narwhal Sound branches southeastwards.