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A clockwise circulation of water, known as the North Pacific Gyre generally dominates the North Pacific.
Pacific Ocean 2008
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Pain said his journey would take him through what is known as the North Pacific Gyre or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - an area about the size of Texas full of plastic rubbish to a depth of about six metres.
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Pain said his journey would take him through what is known as the North Pacific Gyre or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - an area about the size of Texas full of plastic rubbish to a depth of about six metres.
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As the world is slowly waking up to its single-use plastic addiction, researchers are showing that oceanic plastic pollution isn't just a North Pacific Gyre and a North Atlantic Gyre problem.
Stiv J. Wilson: Never Before Studied Gyre: Researchers Find Plastic in the South Pacific Too Stiv J. Wilson 2011
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They named the vessel "JUNKraft," and in 2008, they set sail from California to Hawaii - traveling right through the North Pacific Gyre.
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Thanks to Charles Moore and his Algalita Marine Research Foundation, and those who followed him, we have over a decade of research on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch 1000 miles off the coast of California where plastic collects around the North Pacific Gyre.
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His return took him through the rarely traveled area of the North Pacific Gyre, and there he discovered, to his horror, that he was traveling through a giant plastic soup for an entire week.
Lisa Kaas Boyle: Media Catches the Boat to Pacific Garbage Patch 2009
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From August 2-21, a group of doctoral students and research volunteers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will embark on an expedition aboard the Scripps research vessel New Horizon to explore the problem of plastic in the North Pacific Gyre.
Archive 2009-07-01 DNLee 2009
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From August 2-21, a group of doctoral students and research volunteers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will embark on an expedition aboard the Scripps research vessel New Horizon to explore the problem of plastic in the North Pacific Gyre.
Adventures on the High Seas with SEAPLEX DNLee 2009
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The North Pacific Gyre is centered around two natural whirlpool currents that create a giant dog-bone shaped area, and all of it is a diffuse plastic soup.
Lisa Kaas Boyle: Media Catches the Boat to Pacific Garbage Patch 2009
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