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New world's largest Aquarium, or not?

Discussion in 'China' started by Terp, 5 Apr 2014.

  1. Terp

    Terp Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    According to Guinness, the Hengqin Ocean Kingdom - which is referred everywhere else as the Chimelong Ocean Paradise holds 5 new records including the world's largest aquarium tank at 5.99M US gallons, and world's largest aqaurium at 12.87M gallons.

    Never even heard of this place until today. Whale sharks, mantas, sunfish, beluga, at least 2 dolphin species including Chinese white dolphin, etc

    What's odd to me, is that Ocean Voyager at Georgia Aquarium is supposedly 6.3M US gallons.

    And I'm curious - does anyone know why Shamu Stadium, at 7M gallons, hasn't been considered the largest aquarium? Because it's outdoors? Sea World San Diego/Orlando must be close to that 13M.
     
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    TheMightyOrca Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    I suppose we'd have to figure out how Guinness World Records defines "aquarium" and "aquarium tank". Maybe it does only refer to indoor tanks.
     
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    Terp Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Interesting, at least that means quality of the exhibits are probably high.

    I actually sent Guinness an email - doubt I'll get a response, but I'm just curious about this.
     
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    aardvark250 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I have visit Chimelong Aquarium at last year when the whale shark is still not in display.The aquarium is OK and hold some quite interesting species.I would post some photos on zoochat next.
     
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    This is not the only aquarium in China promoting whale sharks, and building tanks for them, but not yet in possession of any.
     
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    aardvark250 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Actually they have whale shark now.And there are other aquarium have them
     
  9. temp

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    Re-opening an old threat as I had wondered about this myself and finally got an answer (for people too lazy to read it, Guinness World Records are right and Chimelong's ocean tank is larger than Georgia's ocean tank):
    Giant fish tanks of the world