Shanghai Ocean Aquarium

Shanghai Ocean Aquarium
Shanghai Ocean Aquarium
Date opened	2002^[1]
Location	Shanghai, China
Coordinates	31°14′33″N 121°29′50″E / 31.242554°N 121.49717°E / 31.242554; 121.49717Coordinates: 31°14′33″N 121°29′50″E / 31.242554°N 121.49717°E / 31.242554; 121.49717
Land area	20,500 m² (221,000 sq ft)^[2]
Number of species	>450^[2]
Volume of largest tank	2,200 m³ (580,000 U.S. gal)^[1]
Total volume of tanks	4,900 m³ (1,300,000 U.S. gal)^[1]
Annual visitors	one million^[2]
Website	www.sh-aquarium.com/en/html/index.aspx

The Shanghai Ocean Aquarium (Chinese: 上海海洋水族馆) is a public aquarium located in Shanghai, China.

Designed by Advanced Aquarium Technologies, the aquarium includes a 120-meter (390 ft) tunnel that takes visitors through a coastal reef, open ocean, a kelp cave, shark cove, and a coral reef, and is one of the longest such tunnels in the world.^[1]

Animals

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Ducks in Shanghai Ocean Aquarium

Whitetip reef shark

Notes

1 2 3 4 "Shanghai Ocean Aquarium". advanced-aquariums.com. Advanced Aquarium Technologies. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
1 2 3 "Knowing SOA". sh-aquarium.com. Shanghai Ocean Aquarium. Retrieved 17 March 2012.

External links

Media related to Shanghai Ocean Aquarium at Wikimedia Commons
Official website

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