Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

This fjord was named after Royal Navy admiral and Arctic explorer Sherard Osborn (1822 – 1875).

It is a fjord with a wide mouth that opens to the NNW between Dragon Point at the northern end of Hendrik Island, and Cape May, at the northwestern end of Wulff Land.

[1] Sherard Osborn Fjord forms Wulff Land's western coastline and Hendrik Island forms part of the northern half of the facing shore, while the shore south of the Hartz Sound that separates the island from the mainland is part of Warming Land on one side and Permin Land on the other.

800 m (2,600 ft) high Cape V. Normann is at the northern end of Permin Land.