Description of the attraction
The Melbourne Aquarium is located in the city center on the banks of the Yarra River. The building is made in the form of a ship docked to the river embankment. Opened in 2000, today this aquarium is considered one of the best in the world. It contains an extensive collection of inhabitants of the southern seas and the entire Antarctic region, as well as regular exhibitions of the underwater world of the Great Barrier Reef.
In the aquarium, you can see royal and subantarctic penguins brought from New Zealand, a variety of fish and marine mammals, scorpions and tarantulas living in deep grottoes. To reproduce natural conditions, the exhibits contain real snow and ice. In addition, the Southern Ocean exposition introduces the life of the coral atoll, mangroves, flora and fauna of river mouths and inhabitants of underground caves.
But, of course, one of the main inhabitants of the aquarium are huge gray nurse sharks and rare flat-toothed comb-toothed sharks living in the world's first round aquarium with a volume of 2.2 million liters. It is designed in such a way that the viewers themselves become the object of observation by the marine life swimming around them.
Melbourne Aquarium is also involved in conservation programs, such as a program to increase the number of nurse sharks that have almost disappeared from the waters of Victoria, and a program to restore the population of giant sea turtles. The latter are raised in an aquarium and then released into the warm waters of Queensland.
