To the northwest, the fjord opens into the Robeson Channel of the Lincoln Sea.

[1] The fjord was named after the Reverend Dr. Newman of Washington, D.C. in September 1871 during the Polaris expedition by Charles Francis Hall.

It would be the last place Hall named in Greenland, for he was taken ill shortly thereafter and died in November the same year.

[3] The fjord's mouth is located close to the entrance of the Robeson Channel in the Lincoln Sea, Arctic Ocean; Cape Sumner is the headland on the southwestern side and Cape Brevoort on the northeastern.

[5] Several small streams empty into the fjord, as well as a glacier at its head which discharges from the Greenland Ice Cap.