The South Pacific Gyre is home to a spaceship graveyard, plastic pollution—and very little else.
On 7/4/19 at 8:10 AM EDTDeep in the South Pacific ocean there is a region almost four times bigger than the U.S. where virtually no complex life exists. This"ocean desert" is one of the most remote and least studied parts of Earth—yet the microbial communities that do exist there play a huge role in chemical cycles around the globe.
The South Pacific Gyre is home to the oceanic pole of inaccessibility—the point on Earth that is farthest from any continent. It sits 1,670 miles from the nearest land, an uninhabited atoll to the north, Easter Island to the northeast and Antarctica to the south. Finally, a gyre by definition is a massive system of rotating ocean currents—so the movement of the water means the area is largely isolated.Despite this, satellite images show there is some life in the South Pacific Gyre—in the form of microscopic organisms.
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