Where can I visit the most northerly Australian fauna in the world?
In Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, Japan (43.768533,142.482717), I saw a pair of emus. Are they the northernmost Australian fauna in the world, or is there a place even further north that has distinctly Australian fauna?
Criteria:
- Can be in the wild or in captivity
- Has to be reasonably distinct - kangaroos would count even though they also occur in Papua New Guinea, but albatrosses probably wouldn't.
Best Answer
The most northerly Australian animals I've personally come across were at the Copenhagen zoo.
In addition to the not-so-unexpected Kangaroos they also have a few Tasmanian Devils, and at least one Kookaburra! According to my GPS, it's at about 55.672° N, 12.523° E.
Heading even further north, the Helsinki Zoo in Finland has both Emu and Red-necked Wallabies. It's at 60.1749° N, 24.9840° E.
Leningrad Zoo also have some Kangaroos, but it's slightly further south than Helsinki (59.9525° N, 30.3087° E)
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Answer 2
This page says that Tallinn zoo has kangaroos. Tallin is at 59 degrees 26 mins north. A review on this page backs it up. So does this picture.
I found a newspaper report of a ship taking a kangaroo back to Leningrad Zoo (59 degrees 57 mins N) after their only one was killed in the war, but that was in 1950 and I can find nothing to say they still have one.
Answer 3
Inchconnachan, 56 degrees 5 mins north, in Loch Lomond, has a population of wallabies roaming wild.
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