Flamingo Land
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| place | Malton / North Yorkshire | |||
| opening | 1959 | |||
| Visitors | 1.4 million (2010) | |||
| surface | ~ 152 hectares | |||
| Website | www.flamingoland.co.uk | |||
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Coordinates: 54 ° 12 ′ 32 " N , 0 ° 48 ′ 33" W.
The Flamingo Land is a theme park and zoo in the English city Kirby Misperton receives annually about 1.4 million visitors.
It is currently home to over 120 different animal species and offers 59 different attractions.
history
The park, which has its origins in an old country club , was established in 1959. The equally eccentric and visionary park founder, Pentland Hick , made sure in the following years that some animal species, such as dolphins and sperm whales , that were not very common in Great Britain at the time, came to the park. A year after it opened, Hicks Park added a fun fair, which at the time was called The Yorkshire Zoological Gardens .
A flock of flamingos quickly became something of an unofficial mascot for the zoological gardens. Because of this, the park was renamed Flamingo Park in 1968 , before it was later given its final, current name. In 1995, Hick died in a car accident, and his then 18-year-old son, Gordon Hick, took control of the park.
Attractions
There are a total of five roller coasters among the almost 60 attractions. The best-known among them is the Mumbo Jumbo, which opened in 2009 and, with a gradient of 112 degrees, briefly had the steepest gradient of a roller coaster anywhere in the world. The Inverted Coaster Kumali , which opened in 2006, should also be mentioned.
A Flying Coaster went into operation on July 16, 2013 .
Animals
The 120 animal species include African lions , chimpanzees , giraffes and tigers .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Global Attractions Attendance Report 2010. (PDF) TEA, June 2011, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; accessed on June 20, 2011 (English).
- ↑ 'Zoo and Conservation' on the official park homepage. Flamingo Land, accessed June 20, 2011 .