The world's largest aquarium

The Georgia Aquarium is billed as the world's largest aquarium. More than 30 million litres of water are home to 120,000 animals of 500 different species. The aquarium's multiple viewing galleries feature wildlife ranging from whale sharks and African black-footed penguins to a giant octopus and beluga whales.

One of the attractions is the 30m long acrylic tunnel in the Ocean Voyager gallery. The whole gallery is specially designed to house whale sharks, the largest fish species in the world. Further, stingrays, sawfish and hammerhead sharks can be seen in the waters of this captive ocean habitat. As the aquarium states no other aquarium in the world has ever attempted to manage the variety and size of fish in this major exhibit.

The Tropical Diver section features curious garden eels and clown fishes, seahorses and jellyfish. At the centre of this gallery is a living reef, complete with an overhead crashing wave, living corals and a large number of colourful reef fish.

Fishes and marine mammals of the cold oceanic waters are presented in the Cold Water Quest. Beluga whales, sea lions, sea otters and penguins can be found here. A more exotic sight is the Australian leafy sea dragon. Finally, the Georgia Explorer and the River Scout gallery include piranhas, otters, sea stars and shrimps.

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