Biota!
Biota! is a proposed aquarium. Visitors find it inside Newham’s built-up area. Our list has 536 more places within 15 km; first among them is Tower of London, at 7.5 km.
Zoo in Newham
Inside Newham
Biota! is inside Newham’s built-up area, with 46 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Warm months and wet ones
Highs of 19–24°C mark May to September in Newham.
Biota!
Proposed aquarium in Docklands, London.
In Newham, inside the town’s built-up area.
- Type
- Zoo
- Town
- in Newham
- Official site
- silvertownquays-london.com
Locating Biota!
Spot Biota! in orange, then follow the numbers to the places below.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Newham’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Nearby towns
Of these 6 towns, the largest is Newham (351,065 people). Pick a base: each town is a page of its own, with what else there is to see.
Newham
Greenwich
Tower Hamlets
Lewisham
Compare the 6 towns
| Town | Where Biota! is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newham | It’s in town | 351,065 | 133 |
| Greenwich | 900 m southeast of it | 288,117 | 125 |
| Tower Hamlets | 1.7 km west of it | 311,072 | 430 |
| Lewisham | 3.9 km southwest of it | 300,764 | 218 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 4.1 km northeast of it | 218,236 | 29 |
| Southwark | 4.4 km west of it | 307,076 | 471 |
Other places close by
Also close at hand are 4 museums, a castle and a cathedral, among 536 within 15 km.
Big drawCastleTower of London7.5 km away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)2MuseumMuseumRoyal Observatory Greenwich3.7 km away3
Big drawMuseumBritish Museum11 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)4
Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey11 km away5
Big drawMuseumNational Maritime Museum3.6 km away · 2.4M visitors a year6
AttractionElizabeth Tower11 km away7
Historic houseBuckingham Palace12 km away8
MuseumCutty Sark3.7 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Visiting Biota!: the answers
Where is Biota!?
Biota! is in Newham, London, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Biota!?
Proposed aquarium in Docklands, London.
When is the best time to visit Biota!?
May to September are the warmest months in Newham, with afternoon highs of 19–24°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Biota!?
Within 15 km: Tower of London (7.5 km), Royal Observatory Greenwich (3.7 km), British Museum (11 km) and Westminster Abbey (11 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (7)
- Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Westminster Abbey: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Maritime Museum: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cutty Sark: Krzysztof Belczyński from Warsaw, POLAND, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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