 In the area around the fjord are traces of two paleo-Eskimo cultures known as Independence I culture and Independence II culture after this fjord.The head of the fjord was first put on the map by Robert Peary, who reached the area of the head of the fjord in 1892 together with Eivind Astrup and gave the fjord its name.Peary had mapped the fjord as a bay or sound, leading westwards through the Peary Channel.