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The 36 metre (118ft) - high structure is being built on a 16 metre-high hill in the western Polish town.

Jesus Christ statue in smalltown Poland bids to rival Rio's Redeemer Kate Connolly in Berlin 2010

The main body of Swiebodzin's Jesus is 33 metres high – a metre for each year he lived – and is topped with a 3 metre-high metal crown of thorns.

Jesus Christ statue in smalltown Poland bids to rival Rio's Redeemer Kate Connolly in Berlin 2010

With the singers at the front of the stage (though sometimes distributed around the auditorium), orchestra behind, an 11 metre-high screen at the back and surtitles above, there was no unifying focal point.

Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Gergiev Fiona Maddocks 2010

One concrete section is daubed in Italian with 2.5-metre-high letters: "Hey Loco, Ti Amo!"

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In Shintona many buildings withstood the force of a 10 metre-high wave slamming into the coastline at the speed of a jumbo jet; but a number of their elderly occupants could not.

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From there, it's on to surf-city Durban and one of the most mind-blowing experiences imaginable: a bungee swing from the 106-metre-high arch at the Moses Mabhida stadium.

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Stretching a kilometre across the broad, shallow valley, the 18-metre-high, smoky black brickwork is a colossal Victorian engineering statement that screams of steam engines.

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Company officials estimate it will take two to three years to build a 12-metre-high tsunami wall stretching nearly a mile along the Pacific coast.

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"If he was supposed to have climbed over a metre-high balcony rail, there would have been scuff marks," she said.

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The sculptor, who died in 1993, is thought to have been inspired to create the 1.9 metre-high half-man, half-bird figure in plaster after reading in Paris Match about a real-life birdman, Léo Valentin, who tried to fly, Icarus-like, with wings.

Elisabeth Frink's Birdman finally captured by gallery 2010