Discovery Island (Bay Lake, Florida)

USA / Florida / Lake Buena Vista / Bay Lake, Florida
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Discovery Island, also known as "Bay Lake's Tropical Island Paradise," is an 11½-acre island in Bay Lake at Walt Disney World Resort. It opened as "Treasure Island" on April 8, 1974, and was a place to observe wildlife. It was closed to the public on April 8, 1999, but continued to operate until July 9, 1999, at which point all of its animals had been relocated to new homes at Disney's Animal Kingdom (which retained the Discovery Island name in the hub area formerly called Safari Village) and other zoos.

Since then, a few plans have been scuttled, including transforming the island into an area based after the 1993 video game "Myst", or an entertainment area called "Disney's Night Kingdom", which would be open from 4 pm to 2 am and replace the entertainment gap left by the closing of Disney's Pleasure Island. Another plan that never came to pass would be to transform the area into a special wildlife encounter area called "Disney's Jungle Trek", similar to Sea World's nearby Discovery Cove park. Guests would pay an additional fee to enter the park, which would include activities such as dolphin and shark encounters, chances to hand feed hippos, nature hikes, and tree top zip lines.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Island_(Florida)
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Coordinates:   28°24'51"N   81°33'58"W

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  • So Sad! What A Nice Place... It Was.
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