• THE GIANT OBSERVATION WHEEL QUICKLY BECAME ONE OF LONDON'S MOST ICONIC ATTRACTIONS WHEN IT OPENED IN 2000.
    The London Eye may be one of the city's most popular attractions, but there are many facts travelers don't know:



  • 1. At 443 feet high, the London Eye is currently the fourth-largest Ferris wheel in the world, but it doesn't even crack the top 20 tallest structures in London itself. (For the record, the tallest building in the city is the Shard, topping out at 1,004 feet high.)

    2. A ride on the London Eye takes 30 minutes, and it travels at a speed of about 0.6 miles per hour

    4. With more than 3.5 million people checking out the Eye every year, it's now the most popular paid tourist attraction in the U.K. The most popular free attraction is the British Museum, which sees more than 6 million visitors each year.

    8. One thing that differentiates the Eye from other Ferris wheels around the world is the fact that it's cantilevered, or supported on only one side. Wheels with similar structures include Orlando's new Orlando Eye, which opened this summer.

    7. The entire wheel weighs more than 1,000 tons, or well over 1 million pounds. It was assembled flat and moved onto eight temporary islands on the River Thames; the structure was raised into place in September 1999. But the process wasn't without its snafus: one of the cables in the structure snapped before it was lifted, and had to be replaced.

  • True or false?
  • 1.London Eye is 443 feet high
  • 2.A ride on the London Eye takes 40 minutes
  • 3.London Eye is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the U.K
  • 4.London Eye is supported on two sides
  • 5.The entire wheel weights more than 10,000 tons

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