Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

This peninsula was named by A.G. Nathorst after Austrian geologist Eduard Suess (1831–1914) at the time of his 1899 venture searching for traces of the lost Andrée expedition.

Nathorst had previously translated a book by Eduard Suess into Swedish.

[1] Suess Land has a mountainous, Alpine terrain.

The peninsula is attached to Goodenough Land by a narrow isthmus in the southwest.