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The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is the largest such mass in the world. [21] The sargassum masses generally are not a threat to shipping, and historic incidents of sailing ships being trapped there are due to the often-calm winds of the horse latitudes. [20]
The development of the belt 2011–2018. This Sargassum was first reported by Christopher Columbus in the 15th century but recently appeared in 2011 in the Atlantic. [4]As of 2023, the belt is estimated to weigh about 5.5 million metric tonnes and extends 5,000 miles (8,000 km), stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico.
Sargassum is a genus of brown macroalgae in the order Fucales of the Phaeophyceae class. [1] Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and coral reefs, and the genus is widely known for its planktonic (free-floating) species.
Sargassum is a lifeline for fish nurseries, hungry migratory birds and sea turtle hatchlings, but in mass quantities can be a killjoy for beachgoers. Another record blob of sargassum measured in ...
The massive quantities can also clog boat propellers, impacting another popular summer activity for Florida residents and tourists. In 2019, a buildup of sargassum at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State ...
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
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Sargassum muticum, commonly known as Japanese wireweed [2] or japweed, [3] [4] is a large brown seaweed of the genus Sargassum. It is native to the Western Pacific Ocean from coasts of China, South Korea, Japan, and southern Russia. During the mid-1900s, S. muticum was introduced to the Eastern Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and the ...