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Ocean Park, Hong Kong |
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Ocean Park, Hong Kong is the name of an extremely famous and popular theme park in the Southern District of the Hong Kong Island. This is one of the best known marine- themed parks in Hong Kong. Located in Hong Kong, Ocean Park covers within its area Nam Long Shan and Wong Chuk Hang. If you are in Hong Kong or in the neighboring areas, you can easily reach Ocean Park, Hong Kong by taxis or by city buses.
Ocean Park, Hong Kong has been very often referred to as one of the most popular public aquariums in Asia. What is even more interesting about this Ocean Park in Hong Kong is that it has ranked seventh as 'The World's Most Popular Amusement Parks'. Forbes has declared it in the month of June in 2006. There are also many more interesting things about Ocean Park, Hong Kong. For example, the outdoor escalator of Ocean Park, Hong Kong is the second longest escalator in the whole world.
Ocean Park, Hong Kong came to be established on 10th January in the year of 1977. This extremely popular amusement park covers an area of 214 acres. Ocean Park in Hong Kong is the home to as many as 14 rides each of which are tremendously exciting, enjoyable and thrilling.
It has been revealed that in the fiscal year of 2005- 2006, Hong Kong Ocean Park was visited by 4.38 million visitors. The cable car system or the lift system establishes the connection among the different parts of Ocean Park, Hong Kong.
You cannot but simply be wonder-struck to find what the Ocean Park, Hong Kong houses. There are two roller coasters, a giant panda exhibit, a jelly fish aquarium and a shark aquarium. In addition to these, the Ocean Park in Hong Kong also features a four- story aquarium that displays more than two thousand fishes of various species. Whiskers, the waving sea- lion is the official mascot of Ocean Park, Hong Kong.
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It would be a big mistake to consider Ocean Park, Hong Kong to be merely a theme park with rides and aquariums. It also operates laboratories, observatories and also an education department. In addition to these, Ocean Park, Hong Kong runs maintains a Whales and Dolphin's Fund. One interesting aspect of the Hong Kong based Ocean Park is that it is the first institution in the world to have artificial insemination of the bottle nose dolphins. Ocean Park, Hong Kong has the credit of developing a huge number of new breeds of goldfish too.
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