Qualla: Kattegatcentret https://qualla.com/kattegatcentret en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:42:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/p/b/kattegatcentret-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Kattegatcentret https://qualla.com/kattegatcentret Kattegatcentret: Introduction https://qualla.com/kattegatcentret/ Photo credit Brian0918, CC BY-SA 2.5. Most aquariums put a sheet of acrylic between you and the sharks. Kattegatcentret will rent you a wetsuit instead. On the eastern shoulder of Djursland, at the harbour edge of Grenaa, certified divers can be lowered into the tropical shark tank with sand tiger sharks and stingrays — or into the much larger tank next door, which contains no coral at all, just a careful reconstruction of the plain, cold, grey water that begins a few hundred metres away.

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/p/b/kattegatcentret-wp/u4pb-kattegatcentret-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kattegatcentret: The Sea Outside the Door https://qualla.com/kattegatcentret/ Photo credit Brian0918, CC BY-SA 2.5. The Kattegat is not a glamorous body of water. It is shallow, frequently the colour of wet slate, wedged between Jutland and Sweden, and it has never photographed like the tropics. When Kattegatcentret opened in 1993, that was precisely the argument. Its largest tank, Oceanariet,...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/p/b/kattegatcentret-wp/u4pb-kattegatcentret-the-sea-outside-the-door.mp3 0:06 2 full Kattegatcentret: Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Litres, Warm https://qualla.com/kattegatcentret/ Photo credit Brian0918, CC BY-SA 2.5. Hajtanken — simply, the shark tank — is what most children have come for. It holds 550,000 litres of tropical saltwater and is threaded by a tunnel, so that the animals pass overhead rather than in front of you: sand tiger sharks, whitetip reef sharks and nurse sharks, sharing th...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/p/b/kattegatcentret-wp/u4pb-kattegatcentret-five-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-litres-warm.mp3 0:06 3 full Kattegatcentret: Seven Degrees https://qualla.com/kattegatcentret/ Photo credit Brian0918, CC BY-SA 2.5. In 2022 the aquarium added something that has nothing to do with either the Kattegat or the tropics: a two-storey penguin enclosure, kept at seven degrees Celsius, where gentoo penguins can be watched from close range by visitors willing to stand in the cold with them. It is a de...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/p/b/kattegatcentret-wp/u4pb-kattegatcentret-seven-degrees.mp3 0:06 4 full Kattegatcentret: What Is Actually Out There https://qualla.com/kattegatcentret/ Photo credit Brian0918, CC BY-SA 2.5. The tanks are not an abstraction. Immediately off Grenaa the seabed is limestone — the same Danian bryozoan chalk that stands up as cliffs at Sangstrup and Karlby a short way north — and it continues underwater as a reef called Kalkgrunden, rising to within about 1.2 metres of th...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/p/b/kattegatcentret-wp/u4pb-kattegatcentret-what-is-actually-out-there.mp3 0:06 5 full Kattegatcentret: The Case for Knowing https://qualla.com/kattegatcentret/ Photo credit Brian0918, CC BY-SA 2.5. The stated mission is unfashionably plain — to pass on knowledge about the sea so that more people can enjoy, understand and guard it. The institution has grown into that sentence rather than out of it. The buildings were designed by the Aarhus architects Kjær & Richter. Princess...

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