Aquarium
Island Bay Marine Education Centre
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🐠 Aquarium, New Zealand 27 spp. present
Aquarium in Wellington, New Zealand
41.344° S 174.774° E
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Essentials
Entrance
—
Tourism
Low
Species present
27
speciesOpened
1996
Size
Small
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Getting there
- Address
- 213 The Esplanade, Island Bay, Wellington 6023
What visitors say
🐠 Animals in captivity
VU
Wellington Green Gecko
Naultinus punctatus
Before you go
Where is Island Bay Marine Education Centre?
New Zealand
Island Bay Marine Education Centre is an aquarium in New Zealand, at 213 The Esplanade, Island Bay, Wellington 6023. Its coordinates are 41.344° S, 174.774° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Abel Tasman National Park, about 158 km away.
What animals can you see at Island Bay Marine Education Centre?
27 species
Citizen-science photos record 27 species at Island Bay Marine Education Centre, including Pond Slider, Wellington Green Gecko, South Island Takahē, Tiger and Sun Bear. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.
Where can you see the animals of Island Bay Marine Education Centre in the wild?
Pond Slider: Congaree National Park
Some of the animals photographed at Island Bay Marine Education Centre also live in the parks and cities we cover: Pond Slider (about 50% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Congaree National Park), Tiger (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Bandhavgarh National Park) and Sun Bear (about 50% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Kaeng Krachan National Park).
When did Island Bay Marine Education Centre open and how big is it?
Opened 1996, 0.1 ha
Island Bay Marine Education Centre, an aquarium in New Zealand, opened in 1996 and covers about 0.1 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 27 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · the centre's official website