[1] Peary Land was historically inhabited by three separate cultures, during which times the climate was milder than presently.

[3] Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872–1907), the ill-fated leader of the Denmark expedition, searched in vain for the Peary Channel in 1907 and was misled to his death by existing maps.

Cape Harald Moltke station was built later in connection with use of the natural runway east of Jørgen Brønlund Fjord mouth.

[6] They are deemed the largest yet unexploited zinc deposits in the world, and the exploitation of the Citronen mine is in the preparation phase.

Oodaaq island, the northernmost point of land of the world, lies off the north coast.

Peary Land is not part of any municipality but belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.

Peary Land is not covered by an ice cap because the air is too dry to produce snow.

One to two million years ago, when climates were warmer, trees such as larch, black spruce, birch, yew, and thuja grew in northernmost Peary Land.