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  2. Garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    The garbage patch was confirmed in mid-2017, and has been compared to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch's state in 2007, making the former ten years younger. The South Pacific garbage patch is not visible on satellites, and is not a landmass. Most particles are smaller than a grain of rice. [22]

  3. Category:Marine garbage patches - Wikipedia

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    North Atlantic garbage patch; S. South Pacific garbage patch This page was last edited on 4 October 2021, at 23:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  4. North Atlantic garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Large floating field of debris in the North Atlantic Ocean The North Atlantic Gyre is one of five major ocean gyres. The North Atlantic garbage patch is a garbage patch of man-made marine debris found floating within the North Atlantic Gyre, originally documented in 1972. A 22-year ...

  5. In pictures: Stunning Google Earth View images show our ... - AOL

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    The Google Earth View Platform has released 1,000 downloadable new images that capture the magnificence of our planet in all of it’s glory. The Google Earth View Platform has released 1,000 ...

  6. Ocean gyre - Wikipedia

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    The best known of these is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch which has the highest density of marine debris and plastic. The Pacific Garbage patch has two mass buildups: the western garbage patch and the eastern garbage patch, the former off the coast of Japan and the latter between California and Hawaii.

  7. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so large that tiny ...

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    Some 79,000 tonnes of plastic debris is swirling in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre between California and Hawaii

  8. Earth's biggest cluster of ocean trash, the Great Pacific ...

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    Earth's biggest cluster of ocean trash, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is now 3 times the size of France ... such as nations in Asia as well as North and South America. ... Great Pacific Garbage ...

  9. Sargasso Sea - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Sargasso Sea The Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic is bounded by the Gulf Stream on the west, the North Atlantic Current on the north, the Canary Current on the east, and the North Equatorial Current on the south. The Sargasso Sea (/ s ɑːr ˈ ɡ æ s oʊ /) is a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ...