▲ 289 ▼ It’s hard to visualise the true size of the Pacific Ocean until you look at it on a globe (lemmy.today) submitted 3 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/interestingasfuck@lemmy.world 37 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 9 points 3 months ago (1 child) Where's plastic island on this? permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago Well it's not so much an island as a vast area with a lot of plastics of various sizes and two convergence points roughly before Japan and California with currents transporting material between them in a loop around Hawaii. I think the islands in the bottom is New Zealand, so the small islands top left is probably Hawaii and California/Mexico barely visible at the top. That would mean that nearly a quarter of the top left rim until behind the horizon (Japan) is where the Great Pacific Garbage Patch roughly is. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago Well it's not so much an island as a vast area with a lot of plastics of various sizes and two convergence points roughly before Japan and California with currents transporting material between them in a loop around Hawaii. I think the islands in the bottom is New Zealand, so the small islands top left is probably Hawaii and California/Mexico barely visible at the top. That would mean that nearly a quarter of the top left rim until behind the horizon (Japan) is where the Great Pacific Garbage Patch roughly is. permalink fedilink source parent