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As he waves goodbye to Razor
the shark, Splash gets swept up in the Humboldt current. A continuation
of the east Australian current, the Humboldt current is a circular
current which takes water from eastern Australia south past the Antarctic,
then
north again up the coast of South America before sweeping west past
the equator and flowing south again toward Australia’s warm northern
oceans.
The most famous landmark in Australia’s northern oceans is
the Great Barrier Reef. Running down much of the coastline of north
eastern Australia,
this World Heritage site is the world’s largest structure built
by living organisms and is one of the few such structures visible from
space. Finally home again on the Great Barrier Reef, Splash gets reunited
with his friend Angel the Angelfish, who is the aquarium’s guide
through the Great Barrier Reef display.
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At 2.6 million litres, Sydney Aquarium has the world’s
largest Great Barrier Reef exhibit, highlighting the enormous
variety of life in this habitat.
Here you’ll see clown anemone fish dart amongst the waving tentacles of
an anemone, sea stars and sea cucumbers silently creeping amongst the coral,
wildly coloured triggerfish and vibrantly coloured tangs and angelfish zipping
around then suddenly stopping in their tracks to be attended to by a tiny cleaner
wrasse, deceptively beautiful lionfish hovering menacingly over coral formations
in search of their next meal, brilliantly patterned lobsters waving their long
antennae about, sleek tropical sharks and giant shark rays seeming to move in
time with the music and an enormous, bright blue, comical looking humpheaded
wrasse stopping to check out aquarium visitors with his ever watchful eye. |
By the time you reach the reef theatre, with its floor to
ceiling wall of glass, constantly moving school of dart fish
and captivating music, you just will not want to leave! |
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