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Great Pacific Garbage Patch in August 2015 (model) The patch is created in the gyre of the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch [1]) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean.
Converging low winds and ocean currents funnel marine debris into a central location, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). ... Accumulated in this area are 1.8 trillion pieces of ...
GPGP may refer to: Great Pacific Garbage Patch , or Pacific Trash Vortex, a rotating ocean current containing marine litter Generalized Partial Global Planning (computer science), see Task analysis environment modeling simulation (TAEMS)
The relatively small and concentrated Lac St-Jean area where the city is located can be described as an isolated "oasis" in the middle of the vast remote wilderness of Northern Quebec. No paved roads go north from the area into the wilderness; the last paved roads to the north end just a short distance from the city, and still within the Lac St ...
Marine Protected Areas are governed by the Oceans Act of 1996 and administered by Fisheries and Oceans Canada. [1] The federal government of Canada has committed to protecting 25% of its oceans as Marine Protected Areas by the year 2025, and a further 5% (30% of the ocean area of the Exclusive Economic Zone) by 2030. [2]
Geographically, it is located on the north side of the Ottawa River opposite Canada's capital, Ottawa. It has a land area of 30,457.52 square kilometres (11,759.71 sq mi) [3] and its population was 405,158 inhabitants as of 2021. [3] From 2017 to 2021, the Outaouais has a lower per capita disposable income than the rest of Quebec.
[3] [4] [5] Ten of the fifteen fastest-growing CAs in Canada between the two most recent censuses were located in Alberta. The other five were located in British Columbia with two, and Manitoba, Ontario and Yukon each with one. Between 2006 and 2011, twenty-four CAs experienced population decline.
Lake District or Edmonton North is a residential area in the northeast portion of the City of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada.It was established in 1979 through Edmonton City Council's adoption of the Edmonton North Area Structure Plan, which guides the overall development of the area.