 One of Roald Amundsen's men, Godfred Hansen, charted its east coast as far as Cape Nansen in 1905, and in 1916 and 1917 Storker T. Storkerson, of Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition, charted its northeast coast, discovering the Storkerson Peninsula.In 2008 Clark Carter and Chris Bray became the first people in history to walk across Victoria Island.Their first attempt in 2005 failed, so they returned and completed the crossing in 2008.