Kristiansand Zoo and Amusement Park

History

The operating company, founded in 1964, opened the park in 1966. Today he is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Norway. In the year 2008 631.210 visitors were counted in the amusement park with over 800 animals in more than 100 animal species, summer theater and many attractions.

The initiative for the establishment of the park came from Willy Tjomsaas. From 1965 Edvard Moseid was for the expansion and development of the animal park, which opened on June 26, 1966, in charge. Edvard Moseid worked until 2000 in the park.

In the 1970s, the zoo Kristiansand was the largest exporter of camels around the world.

On December 26, 1979, the chimp Julius was born, who grew up in the home and in the family Edvard Moseids; He is best known for a TV series in Norway and one of the major attractions of the zoo.

In 1983 the park to the combined animal and leisure park was expanded. The artist and author Terje Formoe worked from 1984 to 1994 as a marketing and entertainment manager at the zoo, and built on a musical children 's and family program, whose main character Kaptein Sabeltann, first shown in 1989, quickly gained popularity. Since 1989 performances around the pirate's adventures are shown in an amphitheater every year, a whole section of the park dedicated to the events around Captain Sabertooth. In 1991, a further section of the park, which was opened by Kardemomme by Thorbjørn Egner.

On 25 May 2007, the zoo received two female and two male lions from a Danish zoo; both females were achieved in 2008 offspring into the world.

The largest single investment was 115 million Norwegian kroner for which opened on 25 June 2010 Badlandet, a spa, applied.

Construction

The park consists of the zoo and the amusement park; both go partly into each other.

In the zoo wolves, wolverines, Eurasian lynx, elk, snakes, crocodiles, cheetahs, giraffes, zebras, lions, Siberian tigers, orang- utans, gibbons, goats, deer and other animals are shown. Over large parts of the zoo enclosure, the visitor arrives on bridges so that they can view the animals from above.

The farm KuToppen was opened in 2009; He was named after an eponymous TV series and designed.

The theme park consists of bathing Badlandet, the world of Captain Sabertooth, the Kardemomme by, the Båtbasaren, the amphitheater Kjuttaviga and the restaurant area Sørlandsbrygga.