Vancouver Aquarium - Aquarium Facility

Aquarium Facility

The aquarium covers approximately 9,000 square metres (97,000 sq ft) and has a total 9,500,000 litres (2,100,000 imp gal; 2,500,000 US gal) of water in 166 aquatic displays. There are a number of different galleries, several of which were built at different times throughout the aquarium's history.

Read more about this topic:  Vancouver Aquarium

Famous quotes containing the words aquarium and/or facility:

    “The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,
    giant finned cars nose forward like fish;
    a savage servility
    slides by on grease.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are,—1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)