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Kelly Tarltons Underwater World
23 Tamaki Drive, Orakei, Auckland.
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Kelly Tarltons Underwater World: Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World
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  • By Kate-Me on March 20, 2004
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  • in the Aquarium area - Auckland
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    Also here, besides the Aquarium fish and sharks swimming all around you behind perspex as you admire them from the moving walkway, there are touch tanks in the foyer before you get to the souvenir shop with lobster and other sea creatures in, plus a kids marine room with a mini touch pool and other interesting things for them to do, and fish in small tanks to admire. Before you enter the Snow Cat to see the penguins, you first pass through an exhibition which is a replica scale model of the Antarctic hut from the Shackleton expeditions, complete with furniture, piano, and cabin interior, and black and white photos on display which were taken on the original expedition. Plus, you can watch video and listen to audio about the expedition. Rather interesting.

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    Kelly Tarltons Underwater World: Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World
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  • Updated By Kate-Me on December 3, 2006
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  • Penguins on ice - Auckland
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    I'd visited Kelly Tarlton's many years ago, when it first opened about 17 years ago. Back then, I think it was the first of its kind, and the Sydney and Melbourne Aquariums followed up on the idea. What makes Kelly Tarlton's so unique though to me, is that it has Penguins too! King Penguins and another smaller type I'd never heard of or seen before - Gentoo (but still much larger than blue fairy penguins we have in Australia). The penguins have their own ice arena (several tonnes of snow made/brought in each day) and surrounding this 'ice berg' which really doesn't look too bad (the penguins must like it too as they even breed on it) is their large swimming pond. You can watch them swimming through the glass display in another part of the attraction, then go inside and ride in a heated snow cat in a loop around their arena, where you can see them at much closer range. Very well done indeed!

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    Kelly Tarltons Underwater World: Kelly Tarltons Antarctic Adventure
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  • By grets on September 14, 2004
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  • Kelly Tarltons Underwater World - Auckland
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    I must admit I am a bit disappointed with Kelly Tarlton's. We are a bit early and the staff make us wait outside for eight minutes before they let us in and even then they are not ready. The start fo the "adventure" is a walk through a replica of Scott's Antarctic hut which is very interesting.

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    Kelly Tarltons Underwater World: An interesting place for an aquarium
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  • Updated By MLW20 on July 5, 2006
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    Kelly Tarlton's Antarctic Encounter & Underwater World is a unique aquarium. The first part has a walk through a replica snow hut from the early 1900s. Then you get a ride on a snow cat through an area where a colony of penguins live. The aquarium part is pretty amazing. You can stand on a conveyor belt that takes you through a transparent tunnel. Above and on the side of you there are fish, rays and sharks swimming by. Kelly Tarlton's is not a big place so you will only need about an hour to look around but it is worth the visit. We got a free pickup from Skytower.

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    Kelly Tarltons Underwater World: Penguins
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  • By grets on September 14, 2004
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  • Kelly Tarltons Underwater World - Auckland
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    Being a penguin fanatic, I am taken with the penguins in the place. At the ubiquitous gift shop at the end of the tour, I even buy two penguin ornaments!

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    Kelly Tarltons Underwater World: Little things for little minds.....
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  • By grets on September 14, 2004
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    We amuse ourselves for a few minutes taking a photograph at the cardboard cut-out. It's touristy, but what the heck!

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  • Phone: 0800 - 805 050 toll free
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    Kelly Tarltons Underwater World: Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World
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  • Updated By aramat on November 22, 2003
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  • King penguins (from kellytarltons.co.nz) - Auckland
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    The Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World is an amazing visitor experience, I had a great time there. There is an excellent underwater tunnel where it's almost like being in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by sharks, stingrays and other kinds of marine life. But what I liked most was the replica of Robert Scott's hut used in his South Pole expedition, it feels very authentic. And I also loved to see the penguins from the snowcat ride: they are such incredible creatures. When I was there, the King penguin colony had a chick who was already as large as the adults, but still had a baby's fluffy brown feathers. It was a very funny sight, like a penguin dressed in a costume.

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  • Phone: 0800 - 805 050 toll free
  • Directions: Orakei, about 6 km from downtown Auckland
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    Kelly Tarltons Underwater World: Snowcat
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  • Updated By grets on September 14, 2004
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  • Kelly Tarltons Underwater World - Auckland
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    Next we board a "snowcat" for a short journey through "subarctic conditions" at minus seven degrees. More like a poor fairground ride. A few penguins sitting on an iceberg and a man spraying snow from a hosepipe.

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    Kelly Tarltons Underwater World: Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World
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  • Updated By sunnywong on November 17, 2002
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  • Kelly Tarltons Underwater World - Auckland
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    See real live Penguins, explore the Antarctic landscape in a Snow Cat, take a journey on a moving walkway deep under the ocean, through Kelly Tarlton's unique 114 metre (373 feet) long see-through underwater tunnel.

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  • Directions: Kelly Tarlton's Antarctic Encounter and Underwater World is located on the waterfront along Tamaki Drive only 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) from downtown Auckland.
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    Kelly Tarltons Underwater World: Whale attack!
  • Updated By grets on September 14, 2004
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    Round the corner on the "snowcat" and Disney-style seals are attacked by a whale.

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