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- proper noun The part of the
Pacific Ocean in theNorthern Hemisphere .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun that part of the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator
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Examples
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The floating debris will likely be carried by currents off of Japan toward Washington, Oregon and California before turning toward Hawaii and back again toward Asia, circulating in what is known as the North Pacific gyre, said Curt Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle oceanographer who has spent decades tracking flotsam.
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The floating debris will likely be carried by currents off of Japan toward Washington, Oregon and California before turning toward Hawaii and back again toward Asia, circulating in what is known as the North Pacific gyre, said Curt Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle oceanographer who has spent decades tracking flotsam.
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The most well-known plasticized area on Earth is called the North Pacific Garbage Patch, a continent-size region of the North Pacific Gyre (massive ocean-size currents) far away from most human activities.
Wallace J Nichols: Cleaning Up the Language Around Ocean Pollution 2009
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The North Pacific is a global repository for carbon dioxide in the oceans.
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He had the time and the curiosity to try a new route, one that would lead the vessel through the eastern corner of a 10-million-square-mile oval known as the North Pacific subtropical gyre.
PACIFIC OCEAN PLASTIC STEW ( BPA ) STILL ENDANGERING HUMANS 2008
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The North Pacific is the largest surplus region (and hence its water is less salty), whereas evaporation dominates in the Atlantic.
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This is closer to the present so the -- I may not -- I may change my mind about this, but right now I wonder if my book on the North Pacific, which is sort of next on the list after the space book, if that book were not influenced very greatly by my -- by the fact that I had won the Pulitzer Prize.
Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 1997
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Then there is the great national enterprise known as the North Pacific
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The data is from six expeditions between 2004 to 2009 to an area called the North Pacific subtropical gyre where ocean currents take plastic debris.
KING - Home 2010
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The data is from six expeditions between 2004 to 2009 to an area called the North Pacific subtropical gyre where ocean currents take plastic debris.
Fore, right! AUDREY McAVOY 2010
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