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Most of their outdoor photos have plastic trash in them.

You should have warned us that these photos are not safe for work. There are a large number of boobies shown in the last link.

Most of their outdoor photos have plastic trash in them.

You should have warned us that these photos are not safe for work. There are a large number of boobies shown in the last link.

I can't give you pictures of the entire gyre, but there are several taken during the March 2008 DXpedition to Clipperton Island, a small (9 square kilometers, 3.5 square miles), uninhabited (and rarely visited) island in the North Pacific about 1100 km (700 mi) off the coast of Mexico.

Visitors to Clipperton were shocked to see the amount of detritus at the high-tide level on the beach, so far into the Pacific, and took a lot of photographs of it (e.g., here, here, and here). Ann Santos, one of the operators, noted in her blog,

Clipperton island is a place where you can see how much impact man has had on land and environment. Seeing the trash washed up on shore when I was on Kure Atoll in 2005 was nothing compared to what is on Clipperton. There are shoes, fishing nets, pieces of buys, lighters, bottles (both plastic and glass), tires and much more.

Most of their outdoor photos have plastic trash in them.

I can't give you pictures of the entire gyre, but there are several taken during the March 2008 DXpedition to Clipperton Island, a small (9 square kilometers, 3.5 square miles), uninhabited (and rarely visited) island in the North Pacific about 1100 km (700 mi) off the coast of Mexico.

Visitors to Clipperton were shocked to see the amount of detritus at the high-tide level on the beach, so far into the Pacific, and took a lot of photographs of it (e.g., here, here, and here). Ann Santos, one of the operators, noted in her blog,

Clipperton island is a place where you can see how much impact man has had on land and environment. Seeing the trash washed up on shore when I was on Kure Atoll in 2005 was nothing compared to what is on Clipperton. There are shoes, fishing nets, pieces of buys, lighters, bottles (both plastic and glass), tires and much more.

Most of their outdoor photos have plastic trash in them.

I can't give you pictures of the entire gyre, but there are several taken during the March 2008 DXpedition to Clipperton Island, a small (9 square kilometers, 3.5 square miles), uninhabited (and rarely visited) island in the North Pacific about 1100 km (700 mi) off the coast of Mexico.

Visitors to Clipperton were shocked to see the amount of detritus at the high-tide level on the beach, so far into the Pacific, and took a lot of photographs of it (e.g., here, here, and here). Ann Santos, one of the operators, noted in her blog,

Clipperton island is a place where you can see how much impact man has had on land and environment. Seeing the trash washed up on shore when I was on Kure Atoll in 2005 was nothing compared to what is on Clipperton. There are shoes, fishing nets, pieces of buys, lighters, bottles (both plastic and glass), tires and much more.

Most of their outdoor photos have plastic trash in them.

I can't give you pictures of the entire gyre, but there are several taken during the March 2008 DXpedition to Clipperton Island, a small (9 square kilometers, 3.5 square miles), uninhabited (and rarely visited) island in the North Pacific about 1100 km (700 mi) off the coast of Mexico.

Visitors to Clipperton were shocked to see the amount of detritus at the high-tide level on the beach, so far into the Pacific, and took a lot of photographs of it (e.g., here, here, and here). Ann Santos, one of the operators, noted in her blog,

Clipperton island is a place where you can see how much impact man has had on land and environment. Seeing the trash washed up on shore when I was on Kure Atoll in 2005 was nothing compared to what is on Clipperton. There are shoes, fishing nets, pieces of buys, lighters, bottles (both plastic and glass), tires and much more.

Most of their outdoor photos have plastic trash in them.

I can't give you pictures of the entire gyre, but there are several taken during the March 2008 DXpedition to Clipperton Island, a small (9 square kilometers, 3.5 square miles), uninhabited (and rarely visited) island in the North Pacific about 1100 km (700 mi) off the coast of Mexico.

Visitors to Clipperton were shocked to see the amount of detritus at the high-tide level on the beach, so far into the Pacific, and took a lot of photographs of it (e.g., here, here, and here). Ann Santos, one of the operators, noted in her blog,

Clipperton island is a place where you can see how much impact man has had on land and environment. Seeing the trash washed up on shore when I was on Kure Atoll in 2005 was nothing compared to what is on Clipperton. There are shoes, fishing nets, pieces of buys, lighters, bottles (both plastic and glass), tires and much more.

Most of their outdoor photos have plastic trash in them.

I can't give you pictures of the entire gyre, but there are several taken during the March 2008 DXpedition to Clipperton Island, a small (9 square kilometers, 3.5 square miles), uninhabited (and rarely visited) island in the North Pacific about 1100 km (700 mi) off the coast of Mexico.

Visitors to Clipperton were shocked to see the amount of detritus at the high-tide level on the beach, so far into the Pacific, and took a lot of photographs of it (e.g., here, here, and here). Ann Santos, one of the operators, noted in her blog,

Clipperton island is a place where you can see how much impact man has had on land and environment. Seeing the trash washed up on shore when I was on Kure Atoll in 2005 was nothing compared to what is on Clipperton. There are shoes, fishing nets, pieces of buys, lighters, bottles (both plastic and glass), tires and much more.

Most of their outdoor photos have plastic trash in them.