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Ocean City State Park is a state-operated, public recreation area on the Pacific Ocean in Grays Harbor County, Washington, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of downtown Ocean Shores.
Governors Island National Monument is a unit of the United States national park system in New York City. It is located on 22 acres (89,000 m 2 ) of Governors Island , a 172-acre (0.70 km 2 ) island located off the southern tip of Manhattan Island , at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers in New York Harbor .
Designated on May 11, 1994, [2] the sanctuary encompasses 3,189 square miles (2,408 sq nmi; 8,259 km 2) of the Pacific Ocean along the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, from Cape Flattery in the north to the mouth of the Copalis River, a distance of about 162.5 miles (261.5 km). [1]
A "rain of fish" (a tornado that travels over the ocean, sucks up fish and then drops them over villages) is a common theme appearing in Honduran art - part of the culture of Honduras. The container vessel Hansa Carrier spilled over 80,000 Nike shoes into the Pacific Ocean, and they were used by scientists to track ocean currents.
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. national monument in Wheeler and Grant counties in east-central Oregon.Located within the John Day River basin and managed by the National Park Service, the park is known for its well-preserved layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived in the region between the late Eocene, about 45 million years ago, and the late Miocene, about 5 million ...
The Indian Ocean drainage basin covers 21,100,000 km 2 (8,100,000 sq mi), virtually identical to that of the Pacific Ocean and half that of the Atlantic basin, or 30% of its ocean surface (compared to 15% for the Pacific). The Indian Ocean drainage basin is divided into roughly 800 individual basins, half that of the Pacific, of which 50% are ...
Minamitorishima (南鳥島, lit."Southern Bird Island") (pronounced: [minamitoɾiɕi̥ma]) sometimes Minami-Tori-shima or Minami-Torishima, also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, located some 1,848 km (998 nmi; 1,148 mi) southeast of Tokyo and 1,267 km (684 nmi; 787 mi) east of the closest Japanese island, South Iwo Jima of the ...
In 2013 Slat founded the non-profit The Ocean Cleanup, of which he serves as the CEO. [7] The group's mission is to develop advanced technologies to rid the world's oceans of plastic. [ 11 ] It raised US$2.2 million through a crowd funding campaign with the help of 38,000 donors from 160 countries. [ 12 ]