The peninsula is named after Arthur R. Hinks, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, 1915–45.

Hinksland is limited to the northwest by the Daugaard-Jensen Glacier, beyond which lies Charcot Land, to the northeast by the Nordvestfjord of the Scoresby Sound and to the south by the 2-kilometre-wide (1.2 mi) Flyver Fjord.

[1] The highest point of the peninsula is a 700-metre-high (2,297 ft) mountain located in the southern part rising above the Flyver Fjord.

[2] Geologically Hinksland is part of the Vestfjord-Hinksland gneiss and schist zone crystalline complex.

[3] Hinksland is at the southern limit of the eastern coastal area of the Northeast Greenland National Park.