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The largest tank is the Pacific Ocean tank which is has a maximum length of 34 metres (112 ft), a depth of 9 metres (30 ft) and holds 5,400 cubic metres (190,699 cu ft) of water and a variety of fish including Indian mackerel, Pacific bluefin tuna, reef manta rays, scalloped hammerhead sharks and two whale sharks. [5]
Japan's largest (13,500,000 litres (3,566,000 US gal)) dolphin show tank [2] A dolphin show tank seen from the in water, the acrylic glass is 4 metres (13 ft) high and 29 metres (95 ft) wide. [2] Opened in 1992, the Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium is a public aquarium operated by Nagoya Minato Promotion Foundation. [4]
The two principals, Peter Chermayeff and Bobby C. Poole, have collaborated on the design of public aquariums since 1975. Their long partnership, with focus on the design of public aquariums, began in 1975 when Bobby Poole joined Cambridge Seven Associates, which had been founded in 1962 by Peter Chermayeff together with Louis Bakanowsky, Ivan Chermayeff, Alden Christie, Paul Dietrich, Tom ...
The Kaiyukan Aquarium in Osaka is one of few aquaria with Mola mola on display, where it is reportedly as popular an attraction as the larger whale sharks. [55] The Lisbon Oceanarium in Portugal has ocean sunfish showcased in the main tank, [56] and sunfish are also on display at the Denmark Nordsøen Oceanarium. [57]
The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium (沖縄美ら海水族館, Okinawa Churaumi Suizokukan), formerly known as the Okinawa Ocean Expo Aquarium, is a public aquarium located within the Ocean Expo Park in Okinawa, Japan. The aquarium's Kuroshio sea tank was the largest aquarium tank in the world until it was surpassed by the Georgia Aquarium in 2005.
At the time of its opening, the S.E.A. Aquarium was the world's largest, by total water volume (until overtaken by Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Hengqin, China), [4] containing nearly 45,000,000 litres (9,900,000 imp gal; 12,000,000 US gal) of water, and housing more than 100,000 individual marine, brackish, and freshwater animals belonging to over 800 species. [1]
Naval Base Okinawa, now Naval Facility Okinawa, is a number of bases built after the Battle of Okinawa by United States Navy on Okinawa Island, Japan. The naval bases were built to support the landings on Okinawa on April 1, 1945, and the troops fighting on Okinawa.
The Gruppe Monsun or Monsoon Group was a force of German U-boats that operated in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during World War II.Although similar naming conventions were used for temporary groupings of submarines in the Atlantic, the longer duration of Indian Ocean patrols caused the name to be permanently associated with the relatively small number of U-boats operating out of Penang ...