It was discovered by the First Grinnell Expedition and named "Grinnell Land", after the financier of Arctic explorations Henry Grinnell.
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He financed an expedition to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin who was lost while searching for the Northwest Passage, and the Grinnell Peninsula on Devon Island is named after him.