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Great Pacific Garbage Patch

gyre of marine debris in the central North Pacific Ocean
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Summary

Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an ocean gyre[1]. It draws 8,531 Wikipedia views per month (ocean gyre category, ranking #1 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in or next to body of water: North Pacific Ocean[3]
  • Instance of: marine garbage patch[4]
  • Made from material: waste[5], plastic waste[6]
  • Commons category: Great Pacific Garbage Patch[7]
  • Inception: 1980[8]
  • Located in/on physical feature: North Pacific Gyre[9]
  • Described at URL: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/[10]
  • Area: 5.0000 km²[11], 542 km²[12]

Why It Matters

Great Pacific Garbage Patch has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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