This glacier is named in honor of Hinrich Johannes Rink, Danish geologist and Greenlandic researcher.

[1] It drains an area of 30,182 km2 (11,653 sq mi) of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flux (quantity of ice moved from the land to the sea) of 12.1 km3 (2.9 cu mi) per year, as measured for 1996.

[2] As reported by Anker Weidick and Ole Bennike in 2007, it is ranked second or third in iceberg production in western Greenland.

[3] It is also the swiftest moving and highest surface ice in the world.

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