Hall was looking for a wintering harbor and pushed northward with his ship after checking the bay, but could not go beyond 82° 10′ latitude on account of the ice and returned.

[2] There is a large cairn standing on one of the entrance points of the bay that was erected in April 1876 by senior Lieutenant Lewis Beaumont of the British Arctic Expedition.

Lieutenant Beaumont's dogsled party were sent out by Captain Nares to explore the north coast of Greenland, having set out from Discovery Harbour on the Ellesmere Island side of the Robeson Channel.

When the party returned to Repulse Harbour its members were severely ill with scurvy and had to abandon some of their equipment at the cairn site.

[3] Repulse Harbour is a small inlet that opens to the northwest 20 km to the northeast of Cape Brevoort, the eastern point of the mouth of Newman Fjord.