Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Axel Heiberg Island has been inhabited in the past by Inuit people , but was uninhabited by the time it was named by Otto Sverdrup , who explored it in 1900-01 .
Simplified: The Inuit people have lived on Axel Heiberg Island in the past , but no one has lived there by the time it was named by Otto Sverdrup , who explored it around 1900 .