Word of the day: gyre
An oceanic gyre is any large-scale system of rotating ocean currents – a fuller definition in this page from Wikipedia.
Apparently, around the globe, there are five huge gyres that contain accumulated rubbish from the oceans in what represents an environmental disaster – more information in this article from the “New York Times”.
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