Nordsøen Oceanarium

Nordsøen Oceanarium is a public aquarium and museum that opened in 1998 on the shores of the North Sea in Hirtshals, north Jutland, Denmark. It is the largest public aquarium in Northern Europe. The Oceanarium is part of the Nordsøcentret, which also houses a conference centre. It is specially designed to hold schooling, pelagic fish. It is of great importance that these fish have sufficient space – a lot more space than in traditional fish tanks – to allow them to show natural behaviour. Therefore the Oceanarium is constructed with a volume of 4,500,000 litres (1,189,000 USgal) of water. It is not only important that the surface area is large (the Oceanarium is elliptical and measures 22 by 33 metres (72 by 108 ft)), but also the large...