Map of the great garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean Stock Photo Alamy

Great Pacific Garbage Patch On Map. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Map This map is an oversimplification of ocean currents, features, and areas of marine debris accumulation (including "garbage patches") in the Pacific Ocean. 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

It is located roughly from 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N Garbage patch or plastic island - that's the name given to the patch of garbage trapped in the Pacific currents between Japan, the Hawaiian Islands and California

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Map

In 1997 Captain Charles Moore was sailing from Hawaii to California when he noticed a steady stream of plastics bobbing in the ocean This map is an oversimplification of ocean currents, features, and areas of marine debris accumulation (including "garbage patches") in the Pacific Ocean. It is estimated to be double the size of Texas in size, weighing 90,000 tons (Cho, 2022)

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Size. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an estimated 1.6 million square-kilometer collection of marine debris located in the North Pacific Ocean He had discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Satellite Image. The exact size, content, and location of the "garbage patches" are difficult to accurately predict. Not all of this trash is on the surface either as much of it sinks to the bottom of the ocean