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Route-map of the Oceanium

The Oceanium is the biggest project of Diergaarde Blijdorp, Rotterdam Zoo, opened in 2001.

In the Oceanium you can make a journey of discovery along many biotopes in and along seas and oceans. The journey starts in Scotland at Bass Rock where many sea birds are breeding, and across the North Sea towards the deep Atlantic Ocean. Travelling on you will reach the Caribbean with shallower and warmer waters. The journey continues through the Amazon-region, along the coasts of South America and the Falkland sas far as the famous Galapagos islands. Via the deserts surrounding the Sea of Cortez on the American-Mexican border you finally reach the end of your journey: the Kelp forests of the American west coast.

About seven million litres of seawater circulate inside the Oceanium. Seawater from the Atlantic Ocean is pumped into ballast tanks of container ships and shipped to Rotterdam.

Diergaarde Blijdorp, September 2009
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The Oceanium is the biggest project of Diergaarde Blijdorp, Rotterdam Zoo, opened in 2001.

In the Oceanium you can make a journey of discovery along many biotopes in and along seas and oceans. The journey starts in Scotland at Bass Rock where many sea birds are breeding, and across the North Sea towards the deep Atlantic Ocean. Travelling on you will reach the Caribbean with shallower and warmer waters. The journey continues through the Amazon-region, along the coasts of South America and the Falkland as far as the famous Galapagos islands. Via the deserts surrounding the Sea of Cortez on the American-Mexican border you finally reach the end of your journey: the Kelp forests of the American west coast.

About seven million litres of seawater circulate inside the Oceanium. Seawater from the Atlantic Ocean was pumped into ballast tanks of container ships and shipped to Rotterdam.

Diergaarde Blijdorp, September 2009
 
Maguari
This is one of things I like about this aquarium - it does its zoning very well and I love the fact that it's all in sequence for this journey around the globe from the Puffins and Kittwakes at Bass Rock, local North Sea fishes, Caribbean sharks, turtles and reef fish (and hutias!), penguins in the Falklands, tortoises in the Galapagos, the gloriously weird bit where it becomes a desert house at the Sea of Cortez (complete with kit foxes, roadrunners and Gila monsters) and finally the Giant Octopus, Sea Otters and sea lions in thr kelp forests (with a great range of appropriate fishes dotted through as you go) Superb.
 
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Currently about 8 million liters of water is circulating in the Oceanium. Due to a unique cooperation between Rotterdam Zoo; and the seaport of Rotterdam (the biggest of Europe) and some big ship-owners, they can receive fresh seawater coming from the Atlantic Ocean, wich is transported in the ballast tanks of the ships. An other ship owned by Rotterdam Zoo transports this fresh seawater from the seaport Rotterdam to the zoo. This happens at a regular basis. Next to this the zoo has its own filter system.
 

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