Penghu Aquarium
澎湖水族館
General information
Typepublic aquarium
LocationBaisha, Penghu, Taiwan
Coordinates23°38′59.0″N 119°36′10.4″E / 23.649722°N 119.602889°E / 23.649722; 119.602889
Opened1997
Technical details
Floor area2 hectares

The Penghu Aquarium (traditional Chinese: 澎湖水族館; simplified Chinese: 澎湖水族馆; pinyin: Pēnghú Shuǐzúguǎn) is a public aquarium in Baisha Township, Penghu County, Taiwan.

History

The aquarium was established in 1997 to enable the Fisheries Research Institute to study local marine ecology.[1]

Architecture

The aquarium covers 2 hectares of land. The main building is surrounded by gardens and sculptures of various types of marine creatures. The building is a two-story building with three main sections, consisting of a seashore exhibition area, a reef exhibition area and an ocean exhibition area. There is also an underwater tunnel with a walkway encased in glass. The main architect for this building, Barney Thorne, engineered the huge fish tank inside which houses a large variety of exotic fish.[1]

Exhibition

The aquariumis home to over two hundred species of fish from water within 800 km radius of Baisha covering Taiwan Strait and South China Sea.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Penghu Aquarium travel guide of hot destinations". TravelKing. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  2. "Penghu Aquarium". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 15 November 2021.


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