Amusement Parks
Reef HQ Aquarium
Open today
9:30 am - 5:00 pm
(07) 4750 0800
68 Flinders St
Townsville, QLD, 4810
Reef HQ Aquarium
The National Education Centre for the Great Barrier ReefReef HQ is the world's largest living coral reef aquarium and national reef education centre for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. It is the only coral reef aquarium on the Queensland coast for visitors to experience the reef from a fish-eye-view. Both a tourist attraction and an educational facility, Reef HQ boasts a range of displays and exhibits designed to stimulate visitors' curiosity so they learn about the Great Barrier Reef and leave eager to know more.
The huge aquarium acts as a window to the reef revealing thousands of incredible fish and reef creatures. Even on a dive trip a visitor would rarely see so many creatures in such detail.
The 20 metre long acrylic walk-through tunnel allows excellent viewing into the 750,000 litre predator exhibit on one side where you can see various shark species and a two and a half million litre coral reef exhibit (the largest in the world), with it's hard and soft corals, providing a home for the thousands of beautiful fish, giant clams, sea cucumbers, sea stars and other coral reef creatures on the other.
Reef HQ is your opportunity to visit the Great Barrier Reef without getting wet, sunburnt or ...read more
We came to visit Northern Queensland for the sunshine and to view the World Heritage Great Barrier Reef. For the "not wanting to get wet", brigade, like us, diving would be out, a glass bottom boat would be limited, trying to view the reef over the side of a moving boat would be hopeless.
The ReefHQ Aquarium Townsville is the "Worlds Largest Living Coral Reef Aquarium" and gave us the ultimate Reef experience, with it's fascinating display of coral sea life, just imagine walking under the sea without getting wet. The trip starts with a dive show, while seated in a theatre, you have a full view of a genuine reef, complete with a wreck, a range of sharks, rays, fish of various size's, lengths, and colours. A diver in full scuba gear is interviewed from the auditorium, while sharks, rays, and other varieties of fish swim around him. The venue is wired to allow for video tele conferencing, for educational purposes, world wide. ...read more
