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This stunning offering from the Welcome to the Museum series guides readers around the Oceanarium. Step inside the pages of Oceanarium to enjoy the experience of a museum from the comfort of your own home. How it's important to conserve our oceans.

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Loveday Trinick is a marine biologist meaning this book isĬrammed full of fascinating facts, but also gets the message cross about Stunning and range from tiny seahorses to Shelf or coffee table for the latest in theīeneath. With artwork that is at once intricate and spectacular and written by a marine biologist, this is filled with facts as fascinating as the creatures are extraordinary. Reaktion Books, 2011.A huge hit with children and the perfect gift, books in the Welcome to the Museum series offer a brilliant introduction to the world through objects, artwork and images, in the interactive style of a museum and the latest addition - Oceanarium - brings children up close and personal with the wildest wonders of the ocean * Waterstones * The Ocean at Home: An Illustrated History of the Aquarium. A Photographic Journey Back To Marineland of the Pacific. Lou Jacobs, Wonders of an oceanarium: The story of marine life in captivity.

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^ Taylor, Leighton R., Aquariums: Windows to Nature, Prentice Hall General Reference, New York, 1993.

^ 'China's Hengqin Ocean Kingdom confirmed as world's largest aquarium as attraction sets five world records'.

Nordsøen Oceanarium, Hirtshals, Denmark.

Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, is home to the only oceanarium in Central Asia. A part of the Wrocław Zoo, the idea behind the Afrykarium is to comprehensively present selected ecosystems from the continent of Africa. The Afrykarium is the only themed oceanarium devoted solely to exhibiting the fauna of Africa and located in Wrocław, Poland. Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, which opened in 1984, is an example. Since then, many new aquariums have sought even greater realism, often concentrating on local environments. A host of marine animals swim together in the four-story cylindrical tank of the New England Aquarium in Boston, which opened in 1969.Īt the National Aquarium in Baltimore, which opened in 1981, a walkway spirals up through the center of two gigantic cylindrical tanks, the Atlantic Coral Reef and the Shark Alley, which display sharks, sawfish, and other sea creatures. Modern marine aquariums try to create natural environments. The largest tank of the Afrykarium in Wrocław shows the depths of the Mozambique Channel, where sharks, rays, and other large pelagic fish can be viewed from this 18 meter long underwater acrylic tunnel. In 2014, the Singapore park was surpassed by the Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in China, the current record holder, with a total water volume of 48,750 m 3 (12,880,000 US gal). In 2012 it was surpassed by Marine Life Park in Singapore with a total water volume of 45,000 m 3 (12,000,000 US gal) and over 100,000 animals of more than 800 species. From 2005 to 2012 it was the Georgia Aquarium in the United States with an initial total water volume of 32,000 m 3 (8,500,000 US gal), later it expanded to 38,000 m 3 (10,000,000 US gal), and home to 100–120,000 animals of 700 species. The position as world's largest oceanarium has since shifted repeatedly in recent years.

When a new 170,000-square-foot exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago opened on April 27, 1991, it debuted as the largest indoor marine mammal facility in the world. The lower level of the Oceanarium allows underwater viewing of the beluga whales and the dolphins. Belugas swimming in the Abbott Oceanarium at the Shedd Aquarium.