The station was built as a scientific post and was also used later as a base by the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland, as well as by other scientists from 1931 to 1939.
A estación construíuse como base científica e tamén utilizouse máis adiante como base pola expedición de tres anos a Groenlandia do leste, así como por outros científicos de 1931 a 1939.