Researchers Find 38 Million Pieces of Trash on Desolate
Researchers Find 38 Million Pieces of Trash on Desolate Pacific Island
Henderson Island
its nearest neighboring island is over 100 miles away.
A small island that's literally in the middle of nowhere has become a collecting "sink" for more than 38 million pieces of garbage.
Researches found that Henderson Island, an uninhabited British overseas dependency, is covered in tons and tons of human trash.
Shepard Smith reported that the six-by-three-mile island in the South Pacific Ocean, nearly 3,000 miles from the nearest continent, is the victim of natural ocean currents.
Henderson Island. Pitcairn Islands.
Henderson Island (formerly also San Juan Bautista and Elizabeth Island) is an uninhabited island in the south Pacific Ocean. It is one of the world's last two raised coral atolls whose ecosystems remain relatively unaffected by human contact, except that they are now subject to tonnes of plastic pollution that collects there, as observed in 2017[3]. Ten of its 51 flowering plants, all four of its land birds and about a third of the identified insects and gastropods are endemic – a remarkable diversity given the island's size.[4]
Measuring 9.6 kilometres (6.0 mi) by 5.1 kilometres (3.2 mi), it has an area of 37.3 square kilometres (14.4 sq mi) and is located 193 kilometres (120 mi) northeast of Pitcairn Island. It has poor soil and little fresh water, and is unsuitable for agriculture. There are three beaches on the northern end and the remaining coast comprises steep (mostly undercut) cliffs up to 15 metres (49 ft) in height.
In 1902 Henderson was annexed to the Pitcairn Islands colony, now a South Pacific British Overseas Territory. It was designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations in 1988.
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