This is a photo of Fox Glacier. A glacier is pretty much a frozen river and it moves through a valley shaping it as it goes. It might not look like it's moving at all but it is and it is immensely powerful, it will rip boulders the size of cars from the mountainside and carry them along with it while it crushes smaller rocks to dust. To give you an idea of it's size; in this photo there are a group of people walking on the glacier's surface. Can you spot them?
Did You Know?: Fox Glacier is moving at a speed of just under 1m a week. That's about 10 times faster than most other glaciers in the world. It's a speed demon!
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