Vancouver Aquarium

The Vancouver Aquarium is a public facility located on Avison Way in Stanley Park, occupying about 9,000 square metres just a short distance east of the Japanese Canadian War Memorial.

The aquarium’s tanks hold a total of 9.5 million litres of water stored to accommodate 166 aquatic exhibits.

The Vancouver Aquarium boasts a number of different galleries, with several of them built in different years since it opened in June 1956 as Canada’s first public aquarium

The tank of the central exhibit of the aquarium is directly adjacent to the entrance, holding 260,000 litres of water with fish and invertebrates from the Strait of Georgia in display.

The Steller’s Bay/Canada’s Arctic is one of the aquarium’s main draws, with four female and two male Steller sea lions, along with two harbour porpoises as its star attractions. This exhibit features an underwater gallery with arctic fishes and invertebrates as well as non-living displays.

It also features a “Research Outpost” exhibit about the aquarium’s research and programs on walruses, northern fur seals, and Steller sea lions.

Another crowd-drawer in the aquarium is its Treasures of the B.C. Coast gallery, a series of separate displays simulating the various aquatic environments along British Columbia’s coasts. The marine life you’ll see in these exhibits include anemones, sea stars, sea urchins, rockfish, and a giant Pacific octopus.

The most kid-friendly among the aquarium’s galleries is the Canaccord Exploration Gallery, with its 4D Theatre and play area called “Clownfish Cove”. Home to jellyfishes and other marine life, this gallery also provides visiting school groups with several classrooms, which include a wet lab education room equipped with conventional teaching aids like computers as well as various artifacts and live animals.

With its various educational galleries and exhibits, the Vancouver Aquarium was designated by the US Environmental Protection Agency as a Coastal America Learning Center. This designation came as the first for a Canadian learning centre and is aimed at strengthening the U.S.-Canadian partnership in protecting and restoring the ocean resources that the two countries shared.

The Vancouver Aquarium is also the first aquarium to have a full-time, salaried staff of interpreters. The aquarium’s interpreter program started in 1967 and is now widely recognized as one of the most prestigious in the world.

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