What is special about the Aquarium of the Pacific?
The Aquarium of the Pacific is Southern California's largest Aquarium. It displays about 12,000 animals and more than 100 exhibits that celebrate the planet's largest and most diverse body of water, the Pacific Ocean.
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Discover all our exhibits, including sea otters, sharks, sea jellies, frogs, and more in our Tropical, Northern, and Southern California Galleries. Convenient parking is available in two structures minutes walk from the Aquarium.
The aquarium is great for families, especially with young children. It is a good place to spend the afternoon letting kids experience different aquatic animals and learn about the ocean. While not the cheapest in terms of ticket price, if you spend a couple hours there it is worth it.
A few of the types of animals you can view at the aquarium include fish, eels, anemones, coral, sea otters, jellyfish, diving birds, giant crabs, and over 150 sharks and rays.
Georgia Aquarium, GeorgiaThere are 11 million gallons of water in total at this aquarium. The Ocean Voyager tank makes up over half of this total with 6.3 million gallons of water — making it the largest tank in the entire world. This is where you can find their four resident whale sharks.
The large touch pool in Shark Lagoon is now home to bamboo sharks, epaulette sharks, fiddler rays, and cownose rays. Bamboo and epaulette sharks glide around the shallow touch pools, where guests can reach in and touch these gentle and graceful animals.
Home to over 12,000 animals from large sharks to colorful tropical fish, the Aquarium has more than 100 indoor and outdoor exhibits ranging from a three-story tall kelp exhibit to a tropical tunnel.
The S.E.A Aquarium in Singapore is the second-largest aquarium in the world. While the S.E.A. Aquarium is the second-largest aquarium in the world, it previously held the record as the largest from 2012 to 2014. This 12-million-gallon aquarium opened in 2012 and is home to over 100,000 animals and 800 species.
Nausicaá Aquarium offers the most complete journey through marine and coastal life, with more than 20 exhibits you will soon see why Nausicaá is the largest aquarium in Europe.