New Zealand - North - Auckland - Kelly Tarlton's (09/2007)

Added: Aug 20, 2008

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Auckland - Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World (12/09/2007)Ride on an Antarctic Snowcat (At the beginning it simulates being lost due to a snow storm), a type of vehicle, through the penguin enclosure. The aquarium has a colony of king penguins and gentoo penguins, the ride also has other features relating to Antarctica and its exploration.Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World, a public aquarium in Auckland, New Zealand, was the brainchild of renowned New Zealand marine archeologist Kelly Tarlton.Opened in 1985 after 10 months of construction, Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World typified the "number 8 wire" attitude of Kiwis. Tarlton developed a new method of building an acrylic tunnel by taking large sheets of clear acrylic, cutting them to size and heating them in an oven until they took the shape of the mould. Some of the sheets weighed over one tonne. An interesting fact is that because of the refraction caused by light traveling through water, and the acrylic sheets used in the creation of the tunnel, the fish appear to be one third smaller than they are.

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Tags: auckland  island  kelly  new  north  tarlton's  underwater  world  zealand 

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