Melbourne aquarium is located in the city centre on the banks of the Yarra river. The building is in the form of a ship, a boat tied to the riverfront. Opened in 2000, now this aquarium is considered one of the best in the world. Here comprehensive collection of the inhabitants of the southern seas and the entire Antarctic region and regularly hosts exhibitions of the underwater world of the Great Barrier reef.

In the aquarium you can see king and gentoo penguins, brought from New Zealand, a variety of fish and marine mammals, Scorpions and tarantulas that live in deep caves. To reproduce the natural conditions of exposure contain real snow and ice. In addition, the exposition of the "southern Ocean" introduces the life of coral atolls, mangrove trees, the flora and fauna of the estuaries of the rivers and the inhabitants of the underground caves.

But, of course, some of the principal inhabitants of the aquarium is a huge grey nurse shark and the rare flat-headed grantovye sharks living in the world's first round the aquarium volume 2, 2 million liters. It is designed so that the audience themselves become the object of observation of marine life swimming around them.

Melbourne aquarium also participates in environmental programs, such as the program to increase the number of nurse sharks, which have almost disappeared from the waters of Victoria, and in the program to restore the population of giant sea turtles. The latter grow in the aquarium and then released into the warm waters of Queensland.