Einar Storgaard used the name again in a 1927 map, and he also proposed a division of the region into a northern and a southern part with a border along Nioghalvfjerd Fjord.

[3] Finally the name came into general usage only after the publication of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland (Treårsekspedition) reports.

All its territory is included in the large Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

[4] King Frederik VIII Land includes mountain ranges, such as the Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps, nunataks, such as Queen Louise Land, and vast glacier expanses, such as the Storstrømmen, the Zachariæ Isstrøm and the Nioghalvfjerdsbrae of far northeastern Greenland.

Flade Isblink, the largest independent ice cap in Greenland is also located in King Frederik VIII Land.