Aquarium
Qingdao Aquarium
🇨🇳 China
🐠 Aquarium, China 23 spp. present
The Qingdao Aquarium (Chinese: 青岛水族馆; pinyin: Qīngdǎo Shuǐzúguǎn) also known as the Qingdao Underwater World (Chinese: 青岛海底世界; pinyin: Qīngdǎo Hǎidǐ Shìjiè) is the oldest public aquarium in China. It is located in the city of Qingdao, Shandong Province. The aquarium originated from an initiative launched by the educator Cai Yuanpei in 1930 and was first opened to the public on May 8, 1932. As of 2013, the aquarium consists of four main exhibition halls that are connected by tunnels and provides nearly 10,000 square meters of total exhibition area. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
36.057° N 120.336° E
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Essentials
Entrance
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Tourism
High
Species present
23
speciesOpened
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Size
Small
Visit
Getting there
What visitors say
🐠 Animals in captivity
LC
Spotted Seal
Phoca largha
Epinephelus
Epinephelus
South American Horned Frogs
Ceratophrys
Common Lionfish
Pterois volitans
Sharksucker
Echeneis naucrates
Before you go
Where is Qingdao Aquarium?
Qingdao, China
Qingdao Aquarium is an aquarium in Qingdao, China. Its coordinates are 36.057° N, 120.336° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Taroko National Park, about 1,317 km away.
What animals can you see at Qingdao Aquarium?
23 species
Citizen-science photos record 23 species at Qingdao Aquarium, including Magellanic Penguin, Humboldt Penguin, Central Bearded Dragon, Spotted Seal and Epinephelus. 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 Qingdao Aquarium in the wild?
Magellanic Penguin: Península Valdés
Some of the animals photographed at Qingdao Aquarium also live in the parks and cities we cover: Magellanic Penguin (about 70% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Península Valdés) and Central Bearded Dragon (about 50% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Hattah-Kulkyne National Park).
When did Qingdao Aquarium open and how big is it?
0.1 ha
Qingdao Aquarium, an aquarium in Qingdao, China, covers about 0.1 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 23 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)