Winter Wonderland's Magical Ice Kingdom in numbers
One sculpture weighs twice as much as the average elephant
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Your support makes all the difference.Despite a surprisingly mild December, real ice and snow carved into hundreds of sculptures have sprung up in London.
An ice kingdom, which is being kept frozen at sub-zero temperatures, has been created by an international team of people at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park.
Here's more about the numbers involved in the -12C attraction:
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Sculptors, all from different parts of the world worked to get it ready.
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Pieces of ice art including frozen animals, fairies, a snow queen and a snow throne, produced using tools such as power drills and steel samurai swords.
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Huge ogre, which is 5.5 metres tall and was cut from a huge block of snow.
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Times as heavy as an elephant – that's how big the ogre is. It took two people two weeks to build.
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Frozen lake, as part of the frozen forest
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Tonnes of snow and ice was used all together.
The endeavour was planned in April 2015, and construction began in July.
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