Zoo
Kolmården Wildlife Park
🇸🇪 Sweden
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, Sweden 78 spp. present
Kolmården Wildlife Park (Swedish: Kolmårdens djurpark) is a zoo that opened in 1965 overlooking Bråviken bay in Sweden. It is the largest zoo in Scandinavia, includes the first dolphinarium in Scandinavia, which opened in 1969 and has daily shows, and the world's first cable car safari. The wildlife park also has a birds of prey display and a seal show. In the Marine World area is a roller coaster called "The Dolphin Express". Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
58.665° N 16.466° E
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Essentials
Entrance
—
Tourism
High
Species present
78
speciesOpened
1965
Size
Large
Visit
Getting there
Who runs it
- Owned by
- Parks & Resorts Scandinavia
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
LC
Boatman frog
Trachycephalus resinifictrix
VU
Steller's Sea-Eagle
Haliaeetus pelagicus
Before you go
Where is Kolmården Wildlife Park?
Sweden
Kolmården Wildlife Park is a zoo or wildlife park in Sweden. Its coordinates are 58.665° N, 16.466° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Gauja National Park, about 527 km away.
What animals can you see at Kolmården Wildlife Park?
78 species
Citizen-science photos record 78 species at Kolmården Wildlife Park, including Common Ostrich, Blue-and-yellow Macaw, Water Dragon, Boatman frog and Domestic Bactrian Camel. 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 Kolmården Wildlife Park in the wild?
Common Ostrich: De Hoop Nature Reserve
Some of the animals photographed at Kolmården Wildlife Park also live in the parks and cities we cover: Common Ostrich (about 70% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in De Hoop Nature Reserve), Blue-and-yellow Macaw (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Emas National Park) and Water Dragon (about 40% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Khao Yai National Park).
When did Kolmården Wildlife Park open and how big is it?
Opened 1965, 124 ha
Kolmården Wildlife Park, a zoo or wildlife park in Sweden, opened in 1965 and covers about 124 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 78 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)