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Osaka Aquarium Exhibits, Osaka, Japan
Ring of Fire
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The Osaka Aquarium is located at the edge of Osaka's Harbor adjacent to a festival marketplace also designed by Cambridge Seven Associates. The exhibit content of the aquarium presents the vast Pacific using the powerful organizing metaphor of the Ring of Fire – a linear zone of volcanic and tectonic activity outlining the Pacific Basin, corresponding to rich habitats and communities of animals. Visitors to the aquarium follow a clockwise and downward spiral, through habitats from different climatic zones along the Ring of Fire, from Japan to New Zealand and Australia. As visitors descend through the 286,000 sf, 2.9 million gallon aquarium, they view each exhibit from levels above the water's surface and below – where the walkway becomes a tunnel through water held back by clear acrylic walls.
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