The Aquarium of the Pacific is a public aquarium located on Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach, California, across from the Long Beach Convention Center, stretched across a 5-acre site. The aquarium is home to more than 11,000 animals from over 500 species and contains three major permanent galleries. The warm Southern California/Baja Gallery has a three-story Blue Cavern tank with animals that live around Catalina Island, the Amber Forest contains a replica of a giant kelp forest, while the Gulf of California simply teems with fish like Cortez rainbow wrasse, porcupine fish, and Mexican lookdowns.

This gallery also includes a sea lion and seal habitat, a ray touch pool as well as the Shorebird Sanctuary. The Northern Pacific Gallery contains a selection of species and habitats from the Bering Sea, such as the sea otter habitat with southern sea otters, and the diving birds exhibit with puffins and auklets, and the giant Pacific octopus tank. The tropical Pacific 350,000-gallon tank is home to a tropical reef habitat, which has zebra sharks, olive ridley sea turtles, and many other species.

100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA 90802, Phone: 562-590-3100, Map

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