How fast does the fastest glacier move?
1.67 m/hAbout 5.48 ft/h · Creep
Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier moved up to about 40 m a day in 2012.
A red kangaroo at full speed (56 km/h) is about 34,000 times faster.
🧊1.67 m/h
🕰️Big Ben's minute hand
By speed: the fastest glacier is about 16× slower than Big Ben's minute hand.
Things about as fast
- How fast is a furlong per fortnight?59.9 cm/h
- How fast does electricity flow in a wire?72 cm/h
- How fast does blood move in your capillaries?1.08 m/h
- How fast does a dwarf seahorse swim?1.5 m/h
- How fast does a garden snail move?3.6 m/h
- How fast does the tip of Big Ben's minute hand move?26.4 m/h
- How fast does ketchup pour?45 m/h
- How fast does a sunflower sea star move?60 m/h
Many real things vary, so we use a typical or official figure. Spotted a mistake? Email [email protected].