To the east the fjord opens into the Hvalsund, at the end of the Inglefield Gulf of the Baffin Bay.

[1] This fjord was named by Robert Peary after Christian Søren Marcus Olrik, Royal Inspector of North Greenland.

[2] Olrik Fjord runs in a roughly east–west direction with its mouth west of Kangeq, in the southern shore of the mouth of the Inglefield Gulf, where the latter becomes the Hvalsund.

[3] It is a long and narrow fjord, having a shape uncommon in NW Greenland.

In the area near its mouth the fjord's southern shore is fringed by up to 680 m (2,230 ft) high cliffs displaying multicolored strata.