16 things you might not know about the London Eye
Can you believe that the London Eye is fifteen years old? It opened back in the year 2000 to celebrate the millennium but did you know that since then it's welcomed around 60 million visitors and travelled the world 1.3 times!
Find out more facts about the London Eye that you might not know with our fact sheet...
It's the UK's number one paid for tourist attraction - attracting more than 25 million people to the South Bank each year
The eye has clocked up 32,932 miles during the past 15 years - travelling the world 1.3 times
More than 5,000 couples have proposed on the Eye since the year 2000
The UK celebrity who has clocked up the most rotations on the Eye is supermodel Kate Moss with 25
US celebrity Jessica Alba holds the record for overseas celeb with 31 rotations
On a clear day you can see around 40km from the top of the London Eye - as far as Windsor Castle
You can see it from the ITV studios where Good Morning Britain is filmed!
It can carry 800 passengers per rotation which is the equivalent to 11 London red double decker buses
The London Eye has 32 capsules in total - one for each of the London boroughs
There is no number 13 - they are numbered 1 to 33 - in case of bad luck!
ITV turned the London Eye red for the Text Santa campaign as part of Schofe's 24 hour TV marathon
A capsule on the London Eye travels at 26cm per second which is double the speed of sprinting tortoise!
The height of the London Eye is 135m - equivalent to 64 red telephone boxes piled on top of each other
It took seven years to make the London Eye
In one year the London Eye will rotate 7,668 times - as far as from London to Cairo
Since opening in 2000 the Coca-Cola London Eye has welcomed almost 60 million visitors
Source: Coca Cola London Eye