Museum-aquarium "Underwater World Kelly Tarleton" is located in the suburbs of Auckland - Orak - in Freemans Bay. It was established in 1985 and almost immediately was recognized as an example of the technology of aquariums around the world. Almost the entire complex is under water.

"Kelly Tarleton's Underwater World" - a complex of exhibitions of marine life living in an environment as close to their natural habitats. The complex is divided into five thematic exhibitions.

Center "Clash of the Antarctic" is the visitors three types of penguins: Antarctic, Gentoo and Imperial. It also shows the reconstructed hut polar explorer, discoverer of the South Pole - Robert Scott. Inspect this exhibition, you can use a special mini-train (Snowcat), which, after passing through a dark tunnel, the viewer brings to the show. From the perspective of technology center is considered the best in the world.

"Stingray Bay" - a huge aquarium (350 000 liters of water), which is home to a large number of fish and two species of stingrays. The most prominent inhabitant of the Gulf is considered a huge stingray named Phoebe. It weighs about 250 kg and has a wingspan of slope - two meters.

"Interactive room NIWA" designed to entertain young visitors center. Here they talk about marine life and animals in Antarctica.

"Underwater World" - this is the world's longest underwater tunnel (110 m.). The walls of the tunnel are made of transparent acrylic thickness of 7mm. Visitors moving through the tunnel a special conveyor belt. More than two thousand sea creatures live in two thousand cubic meters of water. The tunnel is divided into two parts. The first inhabited by sharks, the second - coral fish and flocks of beautiful blue maomao.

The "Sea Creatures" consists of a set of relatively small aquariums, each of which contains any one species of sea creatures. Here are the piranhas, moray eels, seahorses, octopus, crabs, fish poisonous blowfish and many others.

In the underwater world of Kelly Tarleton you can swim with sharks and even celebrate a birthday.