Pusaran Pasifik Selatan

Pusaran Pasifik Selatan adalah bagian dari sistem arus samudra dunia. Arus ini berbatasan dengan khatulistiwa di utara, Australia di barat, Arus Lingkar Kutub Antarktika di selatan, dan Amerika Selatan di timur.^[1] Di tengah pusaran ini terdapat tempat yang paling terpencil dari daratan Bumi dan lautan produktif dan diakui sebagai gurun laut terbesar di dunia.^[2] Seperti empat pusaran lainnya, pusaran ini memiliki kandungan plastik pelagik, limbah kimia, dan sampah lainnya yang dikenal dengan nama kawasan sampah Pasifik Selatan.^[3]

Lihat pula

Referensi

^ Lovell, Clare. "Anybody home? Little response in Pacific floor." The America's Intelligence Wire 22 June 2009: n. pag. Web. 17 Oct. 2009.
^ D'Hondt, Steven; et al. (July 2009). "Subseafloor Sediment In South Pacific Gyre One Of Least Inhabited Places On Earth". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 11651–11656. doi:10.1073/pnas.0811793106.
^ Inc., Pelmorex Weather Networks. "South Pacific Ocean Gyre Holds Massive Garbage Patch." The Weather Network. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Aug. 2017. <https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/ocean-pacific-gyre-pollution-garbage-patch/84565>.

[life-1] Lovell, Clare. "Anybody home? Little response in Pacific floor." The America's Intelligence Wire 22 June 2009: n. pag. Web. 17 Oct. 2009.

[sediment-2] D'Hondt, Steven; et al. (July 2009). "Subseafloor Sediment In South Pacific Gyre One Of Least Inhabited Places On Earth". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 11651–11656. doi:10.1073/pnas.0811793106.

[3] Inc., Pelmorex Weather Networks. "South Pacific Ocean Gyre Holds Massive Garbage Patch." The Weather Network. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Aug. 2017. <https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/ocean-pacific-gyre-pollution-garbage-patch/84565>.

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