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

[2] This fjord was named by Swedish Arctic explorer Alfred Gabriel Nathorst after the Kungliga Svenska Segelsällskapet, the Royal Swedish Yacht Club during the Swedish Greenland Expedition in search of survivors of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897.

[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.

The fjord is mostly surrounded by high mountains rising steeply from its shore to heights of over 2,000 m (6,600 ft).

[2] Part of its northern flank marks the southern boundary of Lyell Land and the eastern shore of Alpefjord the western limit of the Stauning Alps and Scoresby Land.