The glacier brook Sermeq Kujalleq is one of the world’s most productive glaciers and the fastest glacier brook in the world.
Within the last ten years the glacier has doubled its speed. Today it moves at a speed of around 40 meters every 24 hours.
In recent years the glacier front has withdrawn significantly. Today the 40 to 90 meters high glacier front is mainly located on land.
The glacier calves around 46 cubic kilometers of ice every year. If you melted this amount of ice, the resulting amount of water could cover the annual consumption of water in the USA.
The glacier produces ten percent of all the icebergs in Greenland.
The largest icebergs calved by the glacier are the size of 1.5 cubic kilometers of ice. This is the equivalent of 30 football fields covered by a layer of ice as high as Mount Everest. An iceberg of this size could supply the population of Denmark with water for almost seven years!
Only between 1/10 and 1/7 of an iceberg protrudes above the surface of the sea. This varies in accordance with the iceberg’s content of air bubbles, sand, and gravel.