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Sky Tower's The Tallest
At 328 metres tall Sky Tower stands above any other tower in the Southern Hemisphere and is the 12th tallest tower in the world (taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris or Sydney's AMP Tower).
Sky Tower is about as tall as 37 buses end on end!
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Sky Tower weighs 21 million kilos (20,000 tonnes) which is equivalent to 6,000 elephants.
It took two years and nine months to build Sky Tower.
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360 all the way
Sky Tower has three circular public observation levels - Sky Deck, Main Observation level and Sky Lounge - from each of which you can get a 360-degree view of Auckland.
> Sky Tower Virtual Tour
Quick ride ...
Three glass-fronted elevators can take 225 people to the observation levels every 15 minutes. The elevators travel at 18km per hour and the ride takes only 40 seconds.
... Long walk
There are 1,267 steps from the base of Sky Tower to Sky Deck. It would take someone 29 minutes to reach Sky Deck walking at 4km (2.5 mph)
Views as far as you can see
On a clear day you can see approximately 82 kilometres (51 miles) from Sky Tower.
That's as far north as Leigh Peninsula, as far east as Great Barrier Island, as far west as the Waitakere Ranges, and as far south as the Bombay Hills.
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Challenging ...
During one Sky Tower Vertical Challenge race a contestant ran up over 1000 steps in only five minutes and 17 seconds.
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