[1] The eastern coast of Greenland was inhabited by Paleo-Eskimo people 4000 years ago and the Kangerlussuaq Fjord was likely visited by hunters.

[3] Remains of Inuit dwellings were found in 1900 when the first Europeans reached this remote fjord during Georg Amdrup's East-Greenland Coast Expedition.

However, the first archaeological excavations on the Skaergaard intrusion were carried out by members of the Second East-Greenland Expedition of the Scoresbysund Committee led by Ejnar Mikkelsen in 1932.

[3] On the occasion of the Second International Polar Year in 1932 a Norwegian weather and radio station named "Storfjord/LMR"[4] began operations at Mud Bay (Mudderbugten) on the southwest side of Kangerlussuaq Fjord.

The weather station was moved in 1949 to North Apulileeq (Nordre Aputiteq) island, located about 45 km to the southwest off Cape Edvard Holm.