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The Miami Seaquarium is a 38-acre (15 ha) oceanarium located on the island of Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay, Miami-Dade County, Florida located near downtown Miami. Founded in 1955, it is one of the oldest oceanariums in the United States. In addition to marine mammals, the Miami Seaquarium houses fish, sharks, sea turtles, birds, and reptiles.
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In the late 1960s and 1970s the sites along the Rickenbacker Causeway continued to increase in popularity. After increasing in the mid 1960 because of the American television series Flipper, attendance to the Miami Seaquarium soared in 1968 when it started to display Hugo, its first killer whale (two years later, Lolita became their second. The ...
After 70 years as a county tourist attraction, Miami-Dade has asked the Seaquarium to move out | Opinion. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
The notice terminating the Seaquarium’s county lease moves Miami-Dade dramatically closer to ejecting the Seaquarium from its home of nearly 70 years in a rapid escalation of the confrontation ...
The Dolphin Company, a Mexico-based conglomerate that runs marine-mammal attractions around the globe, took over the Seaquarium lease in Miami-Dade from the former operator in 2022.
Marineland of Florida, one of the first theme parks in Florida, United States, started in 1938, claims to be "the world's first oceanarium" . Marineland of Florida was developed as Marine Studios near St. Augustine in Marineland, Florida, which was followed in Florida by Miami Seaquarium, opened in 1955 and in California by Marineland of the Pacific, opened in 1954 near Los Angeles, and Marine ...
In a Jan. 5 letter to the county’s Internal Services Department, which manages the Seaquarium lease, Edwin González, an executive at the Miami Seaquarium (MSQ), offered rebuttals for multiple ...