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Shark Reef Aquarium was the first closed-system aquarium in North America to exhibit a great hammerhead shark. The female juvenile was less than four feet long when she was accidentally caught off the coast of Florida. The shark was flown into Mandalay Bay in August 2001 on a 16-hour flight in a transportation tank designed specifically for it.
The National Aquarium houses several exhibits including the Upland Tropical Rain Forest, a multiple-story Atlantic Coral Reef, an open-ocean shark tank, and Australia: Wild Extremes, which won the "Best Exhibit" award from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums in 2008. [6] The aquarium also has a "4D Immersion Theater."
With over 11 million gallons, the largest aquarium in the United States is the Georgia Aquarium. [1] [2]This is a list of existing public aquariums [3] in the United States, some of which are unaccredited.
The Maui Ocean Center is an aquarium and oceanography center located in Maalaea, Hawaii, on the island of Maui. [4] Opened on March 13, 1998, by Coral World International, the 3 acres (1.2 ha) facility is the largest living tropical reef aquarium in the Western Hemisphere.
Shark Cove is themed to look like a shipwreck, and with a volume of 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 L) it is the largest exhibit in the aquarium. Shark Cove holds multiple shark species including: Sand tiger sharks , Nurse sharks , Brown shark , and Whitetip reef sharks .
A sand tiger shark swims at the Sobela Ocean Aquarium on Thursday, Aug.10, 2023. The new $77 million, 650,000 gallon aquarium, is set to open Sept. 1, at Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium.
In the early 1980s this was a unique approach to the design of public aquariums, as the two largest public aquariums at the time in the United States—Boston's New England Aquarium (1969) and Baltimore's National Aquarium (1981)—focused on "magnificent coral reef exhibits or big sharks", and displayed few local species. [o]
The 1989-era South Pacific Aquarium simulated tropical Pacific environments, and in 2024 it reopened to the public as the Tropical Reef Aquarium. It features coral reef tanks, a lagoon exhibit, a blue hole exhibit, and a touch tank. The lagoon has small fish and eels, while the 250,000-US-gallon (950,000 L) Outer Reef tank has nurse sharks ...