Rating of the largest oceanariums in the world: TOP-15

The oceanarium should be visited to evaluate the greatness of this structure. View the rating of the most famous aquariums in the world.

Huge glass containers, located in complexes, allow millions of curiosity by their own eyes to see what is happening in the thicknesses of the ocean. After all, there, behind especially strong surfaces, are collected in conditions close to their natural habitat, thousands of marine and oceanic inhabitants. In addition to the entertainment function, they also perform educational and educational tasks, and most importantly, they act as a kind of reservoir to preserve the representatives of the marine fauna disappearing in nature.

Rating of the largest oceanariums in the world: TOP-15

Of the many oceanariums, the largest are the following:

1. S.E.A. Aquarium -This is the name of a huge aquarium located on the island of Sentos (Singapore). Located in a large entertainment park, it is its integral part.
   The oceanarium has been operating since 2012. Over 50 million liters of water fitting into it. How about seven thousand thousands of diverse fish and fish from around the world, for which their natural conditions are recreated, feel here in their native elements. Here is the largest viewing area 36 m long and over 8. Consisting of 49 compartments, it seems to transfer the audience to the exciting world of a real underwater kingdom. The impression is enhanced by the wreckage of the victim of the ship's shipwreck located at the bottom.
   Special privileges here are for young visitors. At their services are many interactive programs developed in educational or simply children's areas. The purpose of these programs is to introduce the living conditions of a wide variety of underwater residents. Special programs developed for children introduce them to the features of the life of the inhabitants of the underwater world. In addition, you can visit the “Adventure Bay” - a park in which many water attractions work.

   

2. Georgia oceanarium For a long time the leader in the world ranking. Today he is the second in scale of the oceanarium in the world of 30 million liters. Was opened in 2005. Five compartments are represented here, which are essentially 60 thematic zones. One of them, Southern Company River Scout, inhabited by river residents from North America, as well as individual representatives of “exotes”. In another owners, there are more than a dozen dolphins who meet visitors to a real football show. An exhibition of frogs also works. A touching moment - the inhabitants here are given names. In addition, in the oceanarium with an area of \u200b\u200bmore than 5 hectares there is a tunnel of 30 m long.

   

3. Shanghai Ocean Aquarium Or just SOA does not just occupy the third line in the world ranking of oceanariums, it is also the largest in Asia. Here, about 450 species of animals in 9 thematic zones live on two hectares. One of them is “China”, where dying out species are collected. The names “Polar” and “cold”, inhabited by representatives of the Arctic, say for themselves. There is also its own tunnel, much longer than Georgian. Its length is over 150 m.

   

4. Spanish L’ Oceanografic It occupies an area from above the hectare and is inhabited by more than 500 species of inhabitants of sea depths. In addition to living organisms, here you can see representatives of sea vegetation - only about 80 species. Like other aquariums, Spanish is divided into galleries (10 of them) in the form of towers with a total volume of 7 million liters, representing visitors with the opportunity to admire the inhabitants of the same Arctic, tropics, of course, the Mediterranean and other parts of the planet. For them, more than 40 million liters of water are flooded in compartments. It is noteworthy that the Spanish oceanarium is simultaneously a scientific laboratory, even the compartments here are appropriate, taking into account the naturalness of the environment up to the chemical composition of the water.

   

5. Dubai Aquarium It takes 1.2 million m², filled with 10 million liters of water. It has existed for 10 years and is famous for its entry into the book of records as the world's largest covered aquarium. The oceanarium is inhabited not only by fish, of which there are about 33 thousand, but also more than 200 species of other marine animals. Its dimensions: width over 30 m and height more than 8. And how without a tunnel! Its length is 500 m, height - 11 and width - 20 m, an imitation of day and night lighting works. The miracles of the depths here can be seen not only from the tunnel, but also through the bottom of the glass boat, which is also at the services of visitors. The separate pride of the Dubai Oceanarium is a collection of sea predators. Well, for hungry - a fish restaurant nearby.

   

6. The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium - One of the largest in the world, opened in 2002, is located in the Japanese city of Okinawa in the territory of the exhibition park. Its size is 2 hectares. On four floors there are 80 tanks in which, divided into three zones, tropical fish look through glass not only at visitors, but also at the neighboring room or inhabitants of deep water, and, in addition, everyone can admire corals, which are about 80 here varieties, and turtles that are located in a separate aquarium. An interesting solution to the main aquarium: a huge screen, in front of which the chairs are located, and over the viewer are thousands of cubic meters of water (the aquarium is located on the underground floor).
7. Oceanario de Lisboa - Portuguese pearl with a roof of fish scales, located in Lisbon. The first building was built in 1998, then, in 2011, they built one more, connecting them with a tunnel. The roof is developed from transparent ceramic tiles, which makes it possible to freely penetrate sunlight, creates additional ventilation. On the territory in 1 hectare and at a 7-meter depth, in 5 huge aquariums, in each of which a separate ocean is recreated and its inhabitants are pleasing to the eye, the total number of which is within 16 thousand, and the number of species reaches 450. Such sizes and “dense and densely populated »As if they transfer visitors to a real ocean, in which, moreover, there is also their own wonders-a lun fish. The conditions of its content are quite complicated, so not every oceanarium boasts the presence of this type of fish. The sea birds represented in the Indian tropics zone are also interesting.

   

8. L’Aquarium de Barcelona One of the largest in Europe and the world. Its area is one and a half hectare, and the “population” is calculated 12 thousand inhabitants, who are representatives of about 450 species. Like others, L’Aquarium de Barcelona is divided into thematic compartments and also has a tunnel, the length of which reaches 86 m. But most importantly - this tunnel naturally connects to the Mediterranean Sea, becoming part of it. A surprise for owners of dive certificates: the ability to swim with sharks.

   

9. Sochi discovery, which began work in 2009, "part -time" is also the largest in Russia. Two floors, 6 thousand hectares, 5 million liters of water. And all this occupies 29 tanks, of which the central is again made in the form of a tunnel, which stretches for 44 m. There is where to place representatives of the most diverse species, subspecies, detachments and other classifications of the inhabitants of the underwater world, which gathered about 4 thousand original exposition This oceanarium, representing various reliefs, forests, waterfalls, lakes, etc.

   

10. Sydney Oceanarium - One not only of the largest, but also from the oldest in the world. It was opened back in 1988, and 6 years ago he underwent a radical restoration. Now there are more than 6 thousand representatives of the water fauna, numbering about 650 species. The highlight of the Sydney Oceanarium is a collection of sharks, which is considered one of the largest in the world. The name of the Aquarium "Open Ocean" speaks for itself: three -meter sharks are simply swimming next to the visitor. There is an exposition “abode of sea cats”, because they are also water inhabitants.

    

11. Ozeaneum Located in the German city of Stralzund and is part of the top three of the largest oceanariums in Europe. In 39 tanks with a total volume of about 2.5 million liters, about 7 thousand representatives of the “tropical”, “northern” and “Baltic” seas were collected - this is what galleries interconnected by tunnels are called. And on the roof - the kingdom of the penguins of the Humbolt, which today are already listed in the Red Book.

    

12. Ripley’s Aquarium of Gatlinburg It is also among the largest in the world and is waiting for visitors in the American city of Gatlinburg. On two levels there are a zone of tropical forest and coral reefs, in the information area located nearby, you can expand your theoretical knowledge, and in the travel zone swim next to predators behind the glass sides of the boat.

    

13. Monterey Bay Aquarium Also located in the USA and consists of several floors. Existing to private money and revenue from tickets, he provides visitors with the opportunity to personally see how animals feed, capture 550 species of fish and animals in memory, among which are really unique. And another rare opportunity falls out to visitors to the Monteri Bey, touch the individual types of the inhabitants of the aquariums.

    

14. Acquario di Genova. This Italian oceanarium, outwardly reminiscent of the legendary ship of Captain Columbus, is visiting more than a million people annually. They can get acquainted with more than 15 thousand animals, of which several hundred are already on the verge of extinction today. Hologography - for those who want to feel themselves among the flocks of sharks, the biosphere zone introduces the representatives of the fauna living on the coasts. The cognitive element is a museum where you can see scuba divers, submarines and other devices in order to work on a marine or ocean day.

    

15. Vancouver aquarium It is located in Canada in an area of \u200b\u200babout 2 acres and has almost 60 thousand living organisms. It has the status of a research institute, as a result, it is precisely rare, almost unique types of water fauna. And here everything is broken not only in biological zones, but also in separate geographical objects.

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