New Jelly Fish House Sea Jelly Spectacular opened on April 10, 2006

Main Entrance of Ocean Park

An entrance to Ocean Park at Tai Shue Wan

The cable car connects the two parts of Ocean Park

Some of the Ocean Park rides which include the ferris wheel and a roller coaster

Panda An An, born in Sichuan in 1986, now living in Ocean Park Panda House

Bird House

Ocean Park (Traditional Chinese: 海洋公園; pinyin: Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán) is a theme park in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island. The marine-themed amusement park covers the area of Wong Chuk Hang and Nam Long Shan, and is Hong Kong's very own theme park. Image File history File links HK_ocean_park_logo. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 638 KB) Summary The new Sea Jelly Spectacular of HK Ocean Park 水母萬花筒 opened on April 10th, 2006 Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ocean Park... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 638 KB) Summary The new Sea Jelly Spectacular of HK Ocean Park 水母萬花筒 opened on April 10th, 2006 Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ocean Park... April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 399 KB) Summary zh: 香港海洋公園的正門，由Wrightbus拍攝。 en: Main entrance of Ocean Park, Hong Kong. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 399 KB) Summary zh: 香港海洋公園的正門，由Wrightbus拍攝。 en: Main entrance of Ocean Park, Hong Kong. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 620 KB) Summary Photo taken by myself. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 620 KB) Summary Photo taken by myself. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (768x1024, 159 KB)Cable car in the Ocean Park, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong Summary Photo taken by myself. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (768x1024, 159 KB)Cable car in the Ocean Park, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong Summary Photo taken by myself. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 583 KB) Summary Photo taken by myself. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 583 KB) Summary Photo taken by myself. ... Image File history File links Panda-AnAn. ... Image File history File links Panda-AnAn. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Macaw_Ocean_Park_Hong_Kong. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Macaw_Ocean_Park_Hong_Kong. ... Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets. ... Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; Pinyin: HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme of the Chinese phonetic alphabet (Simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音方案; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音方案; Pinyin: HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n fāngàn), while pin means spell(ing) and yin means sound(s)), is a system of romanization (phonemic notation... Theme Park is a simulation computer game designed by Bullfrog Productions, released in 1994, in which the player designs and operates an amusement park. ... The Southern District (南區) is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. ... The night view of the Island side as seen from the Kowloon side - the opposite side of the Victoria Harbour Hong Kong Island (Traditional Chinese: 香港島; Simplified Chinese: 香港岛; Cantonese Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 dou2; Mandarin Pinyin: XiānggÇŽngdÇŽo) is the island where the colonial settlement of the Hong Kong territory... Wong Chuk Hang is an area to the east of Aberdeen and to the north of Nam Long Shan, on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. ... Nam Long Shan (Chinese: 南朗山; Cantonese IPA: , Jyutping: naam4 long5 saan1, Yale: nàhm lóhng sān; Mandarin Pinyin: nán lÇŽng shān; also known as Brick Hill) is a hill on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong near Wong Chuk Hang and Aberdeen. ...

The park was built with donations from the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club (now Hong Kong Jockey Club) and opened on 10th January,1977. The park is operated by Ocean Park Corporation which is a statutory board. It offers affordable marine animal education and entertainment and is a private organization for commercial purposes. The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC, 香港賽馬會) (formerly The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, 英皇御准香港賽馬會) is a non-profit organisation providing horse racing, sporting and betting entertainments in Hong Kong. ...

The park has 4.2 million visitors annually in recent years. It has an area of 870,000 square metres. The different parts of the park are connected by cable car, as well as the world's second longest outdoor escalator. The theme park currently has over 40 rides and attractions.

Ocean Park features a Giant panda exhibit, a butterfly garden, a shark tank, and a three-storey aquarium, as well as numerous rides. The park also has its own cable car system, which takes visitors from one side of the park to the other (the two parts are separated from each other by hills). The official mascot of Ocean Park is "Whiskers" -- a waving sealion. Binomial name Ailuropoda melanoleuca (David, 1869) The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca black-and-white cat-foot) is a mammal classified in the bear family, Ursidae, native to central and southern China. ... Families Superfamily Hesperioidea: Hesperiidae Superfamily Papilionoidea: Papilionidae Pieridae Nymphalidae Lycaenidae Riodinidae A butterfly is an insect of the Order Lepidoptera, and belongs to one of the superfamilies Hesperioidea (the skippers) or Papilionoidea (all other butterflies). ... Orders Carcharhiniformes Heterodontiformes Hexanchiformes Lamniformes Orectolobiformes Pristiophoriformes Squaliformes Squatiniformes Sharks are a group (superorder Selachimorpha) of fish, with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a streamlined body, with normally 5, but up to 7 (depending on species) gill slits along the side of, or beginning slightly behind, the head (in some... For other uses, see Aquarium (disambiguation). ... Genera Eumetopias Zalophus Otaria Neophoca Phocarctos A sea lion rookery at Monterey, California A sea lion is any of several marine mammals of the family Otariidae. ...

Besides being an amusement park, Ocean Park Hong Kong also includes observatories, well developed laboratories, an education department and a Whales And Dolphins Fund.

Ocean Park Hong Kong was the first institution in the world to have success in artificial insemination of bottle nose dolphins, and developed numerous new breeds of goldfish, proving the standard of its laboratories.

Attractions

Headlands Rides

• The Dragon- A steel rollercoaster with a maximum speed of 77 km/h with 842 metres of track. The ride lasts approximately 2.5 minutes.

• The Abyss Turbo Drop

• Flying Swing

• The Eagle

• Crazy Galleon

• Ferris Wheel

• Headland Games

Adventure Land A typical roller coaster The roller coaster is a popular amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. ...

• Mine Train

• Space Wheel

• Raging River

• Ocean Park Escalator

Marine Land

• Pacific Pier

• Atoll Reef

• Shark Aquarium

• Ocean Theater

• Ocean Park Tower
• Sea Jelly Spectacular

Lowland Gardens

• Giant Panda Habitat

• Dinosaurs- Now and Then

• Butterfly House

• Goldfish Pagoda

• Whiskers' Wild Ride

• Amazing Amazon

• The Amazing Birds Show

• Caverns of Darkness 3D

• Cable Car

• Grand Prix

Kids' World

• Dolphin University

• Whiskers Theatre

• Rides for Kids

• Tiny Town Games

Bird Paradise

• The Aviaries

• Flamingo Pond

Dining

Headlands Rides

Adventure Land

Marine Land

Lowland Gardens

Kids' World

Bird Paradise

• Middle Kingdom Restaurant

• Silk Snack

• Ching Bar

Further development

Ocean Park announced a redevelopment master plan to redevelop the park into the world's best marine-based theme park, doubling the amount of attractions and firmly establishing itself as a world-class, must-see destination that will further strengthen Hong Kong as a premier tourist destination. In the next few years HK$ 5.55 billion will be spent on refurbishing Ocean Park with over 100 new rides being installed so that it can compete with Disneyland. In the last few years the Middle Kingdom, the portion of the park that features re-creations of ancient China, has been renovated. The Hong Kong dollar (currency code HKD) is the currency of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China, and has been the currency of Hong Kong since 1937. ... The Hong Kong Disneyland Resort (香港迪士尼樂園度假區) was built by the Government of Hong Kong and The Walt Disney Company and officially opened on September 12, 2005. ...

The new Ocean Park will be divided into two major areas - The Waterfront (formerly the Lowland) and The Summit (formerly the Headland). The park will be expanded to almost twice its current size and new attractions will be added including a funicular train for transport from The Waterfront to The Summit, several new live animal shows and an area featuring polar animals. Duquesne Incline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with full length parallel tracks A funicular, also called funicular railway or inclined railway, inclined plane, or in England a cliff railway, consists of a system of transportation in which cables attach to a tram-like vehicle on rails to move it up and down a...

Ocean Park also announced that there will also be an MTR station on the South Island Line that will link the current subway system with Ocean Park and the south of Hong Kong Island. This project will therefore relieve the traffic of Aberdeen Tunnel. Causeway Bay station on the Island Line. ... The West Island Line and South Island Line are two new proposed lines of the Hong Kong MTR metro system. ...

Panoramic view of the amusement park facilities at Ocean Park.

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Gallery

Sea Jelly Spectacular

Sea Jelly Spectacular, located near the bottom Cable Car station. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 579 KB) Summary The new Sea Jelly Spectacular of HK Ocean Park 水母萬花筒 opened on April 10th, 2006 Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ocean Park...	Octopus Jelly Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (960x1280, 579 KB) Summary The new Sea Jelly Spectacular of HK Ocean Park 水母萬花筒 opened on April 10th, 2006 Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ocean Park...	One of the species of Octopus on display in Sea Jelly Spectacular Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 704 KB) Summary The new Sea Jelly Spectacular of HK Ocean Park 水母萬花筒 opened on April 10th, 2006 Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ocean Park...	Tourist shooting photos Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 688 KB) Summary The new Sea Jelly Spectacular of HK Ocean Park 水母萬花筒 opened on April 10th, 2006 Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ocean Park...
A bird's eye view of Ocean Park from the Ocean Park Observatory. Image File history File links Oceanparkhk. ...