ABOUT AQWA – THE AQUARIUM OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
AQWA is our State’s premiere marine attraction, a boutique aquarium located at Hillarys Boat Harbour on the shores of the magnificent Indian Ocean.
Opening as Underwater World Perth in 1988 with just a single aquarium, today AQWA proudly houses over 45 unique exhibits which showcase only native Western Australian marine life, the majority of which is so rare it cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Visitors will witness marine life from the icy waters of the southern ocean to those from the far north of the state- over 12,000km of richly diverse coastline. Australia’s largest single aquarium, AQWA’s ‘Shipwreck Coast’, holds three million litres of flowing sea water and hosts the near 100 metre Underwater Tunnel where visitors can journey beneath the sea.