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  2. Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Wikipedia

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    The North Pacific Garbage Patch on a continuous ocean map. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch formed gradually as a result of ocean or marine pollution gathered by ocean currents. [39] It occupies a relatively stationary region of the North Pacific Ocean bounded by the North Pacific Gyre in the horse latitudes. The gyre's rotational pattern draws ...

  3. Garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch [9]) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean. It is located roughly from 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N. [10]

  4. North Pacific Gyre - Wikipedia

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    It is the site of an unusually intense collection of human-created marine debris, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and the much smaller North Pacific Subpolar Gyre make up the two major gyre systems in the mid-latitudes of the Northern Pacific Ocean. This two-gyre circulation in the North Pacific is ...

  5. 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 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so large that tiny creatures are making it ...

  6. What Is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? - AOL

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    What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? The name refers to a large area in the North Pacific Ocean packed with debris concentrated in various areas that have incredibly harmful effects to the ...

  7. Ocean gyre - Wikipedia

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    The Alaska Current is the eastern boundary current of the subpolar Alaska Gyre, [18] while the California Current is the eastern boundary current that completes the North Pacific Gyre circulation. Within the North Pacific Gyre is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area of increased plastic waste concentration. [19]

  8. The World’s Biggest Floating Garbage Dump Is Now ... - AOL

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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now estimated to cover 1.6 million square kilometers.

  9. File:Garbage Patch Visualization Experiment.webm - Wikipedia

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