Waikiki Aquarium Virtual Tour: Welcome!

Tinker's butterflyfish Chaetodon tinkeri

This "Virtual Tour" will allow you to visit the Waikiki Aquarium via your web browser. We hope you enjoy it!

The exhibits at the Waikiki Aquarium highlight the marine life of Hawaii and the tropical West & South Pacific. We strongly emphasize education and conservation in all of our programs. You may begin your tour anywhere. There are five main areas:

The Galleries at the Aquarium highlight the marine communities of the tropical Pacific and Hawaii, the amazing diversity and adaptations of sea creatures and our use and conservation of marine resources.

The Edge of the Reef is a 7500 gallon outdoor exhibit that recreates a typical Hawaiian shoreline. Here you can learn about five different types of Hawaiian reef and shore environments, and get eye-to-eye with colorful fish.

The Hawaiian Monk Seal is one of the world's most endangered marine mammals. At our Virtual Seal Habitat you have a chance to learn about these amazing pinnipeds as well as the current monk seal research projects that the Aquarium conducts.

Mahimahi (Coryphaena hippurus) is a popular seafood dish. The Mahimahi Hatchery demonstrates some of the techniques used to successfully rear these fish in captivity from egg to adult. Aquaculture is a viable enterprise and lessens our demand on the marine environment.

The Waikiki Aquarium's conservation ethic runs deep. As one of the first aquariums in the world to display living South Pacific corals, we have a particular interest in the peril that many reefs in the South Pacific now face. Our Coral Farm exhibit is a working coral propagation facility enabling us to provide hundreds of coral colonies a year to other aquariums and research institutions. It is hoped that the demand for live corals may eventually be entirely met by "coral farms" and that damaged wild reefs may even be restocked through the efforts of captive propagation.

There are Hotlinks to the left and a navigation bar on the top of this frame to allow quick navigation.