This fjord was named "Fleming Inlet" by British
explorer William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) after Scottish scholar
John Fleming (1785–1857). Scoresby assumed that this fjord connected with "Hall Inlet" (
Hall Bredning) to the south. After more than a century, this fjord was finally properly explored and mapped by Danish
Arctic explorer Georg Carl Amdrup during the
Three-year Expedition to East Greenland (Treårsekspeditionen) (1931–1934). Although Amdrup's survey proved that it was a fjord, the name "Fleming Inlet" continued to be used on maps for many years. A small wintering station was built in 1934 on the east side of Fleming Fjord near Cape Brown at the mouth of the Vimmelskaftet Valley during the time of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. A Norwegian hunting hut was built in 1954 on the north side of the fjord SW of Kap Biot, at the time of
Hermann Andresen’s expedition. Another one was built nearby in 1955 by
Otto Lapstun, who had moved it from nearby Nathorst Fjord. ==Geography==