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Ocean Park Hong Kong (香港海洋公園)



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Ocean Park logo

Location
Hong Kong

Website
Ocean Park Hong Kong

Opened
10 January 1977

Previous names
Ocean Park

Area
87 hectares (0.336 sq. miles)

Rides
14 total

2 roller coasters
1 water rides




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New Jelly Fish House Sea Jelly Spectacular opened on April 10, 2006History
The park was built with donations from the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club (now Hong Kong Jockey Club) and opened on 10 January 1977. The park is operated by Ocean Park Corporation, which is a statutory board. It offers affordable marine animal education and entertainment and is a private organization for commercial purposes.
In the early operation of the park, the main sources of income for the park were the ticket revenues and the fundings from the Jockey Club. Since the ticket price was low, most of the time Ocean Park was operating under deficit. In 1 July 1987, the government established a 200 million trust from the fundings of Jockey Club, under the Ocean Park Corporation Ordinance (Hong Kong Law Cap. 388). This separated Ocean Park from Jockey Club and became a non-profit organisation; it needs to be responsible for its own income and was allowed to use commercial means to operate the park.
Since it was permitted to use commercial means to operate, it gradually raised its ticket price and the deficit turned into profit. In 1992, 3 million visitors visited the park. Since 1998, the East Asian financial crisis, aging attractions, and the passing away of the killer whale; the park recorded a deficit for a couple years. Although it was allowed to host 2 pandas in 1999, the visitor count did not go up and Ocean Park was forced to close its water attractions and the "Old Village" attraction and switched to bring in more rides in an attempt to capture the youth demand. Together with the opening up of mainland visitors under the Individual Visit Scheme, Ocean Park recorded an increase to 4 million visitors in the fiscal year 2004-2005, the highest since the park opened.
In March 2005, Ocean Park revealed its redevelopment plan.(Details are in the section below.)
On 23 November 2006, Ocean Park held a groundbreaking ceremony for its redevelopment.

[edit] Attractions
Headlands Rides

The Dragon - A steel roller coaster with a maximum speed of 77 km/h with 842 metres of track. The ride lasts approximately 2.5 minutes.

The Abyss Turbo Drop - raises the visitors up and drops them straight down in free fall in 5 seconds.

Flying Swing

The Eagle

Crazy Galleon

Ferris Wheel

Headland Games
Adventure Land

Mine Train - A roller coaster

Space Wheel

Raging River

Ocean Park Escalator - At 224 m (745ft), it is the second longest in the world. It is outdoors, but weatherproof.
Marine Land

Pacific Pier - sealions are displayed

Atoll Reef - 2000 fish in 250 species are displayed.

Shark Aquarium - 70 sharks from 35 species are displayed.

Ocean Theater - Performances by dolphins and sealions can be watched.

Ocean Park Tower - A sort of observation deck that rises high enough for park-goers to survey the South China Sea.

Sea Jelly Spectacular - more than 1000 jellyfish are displayed.

http://www.oceanpark.com.hk/f_index.html

http://www.citybus.com.hk/eng/RouSer/OceanPark/ocean_intro.htm