Penghu Aquarium

Public aquarium in Baisha, Penghu, Taiwan

Penghu Aquarium

澎湖水族館

General information
Type| public aquarium
Location| Baisha, Penghu, Taiwan
Coordinates| 23°38′59.0″N 119°36′10.4″E﻿ / ﻿23.649722°N 119.602889°E﻿ / 23.649722; 119.602889
Opened| 1997
Technical details
Floor area| 2 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[edit]

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

## Architecture[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

* List of tourist attractions in Taiwan

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "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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