American Scientist

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The rivers given to this distraction and the principal members of said rivers' basis areas are displayed herein without regard to consistent geographic scale. The circular globes provide a reference for location and comparative size.

Plastic waste mass is illustrated herein as units of Asian elephants, the males of which average four metric tons.

Espoused by scientists noting their observations in Nature Communications, available at the following universal resource locator should the reader desire additional context: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15611.

Created by John Nelson of Esri
Textures have been sampled from the 1854 Atlas of Physical geography, accessed in the David Rumsey Map Collection.
Elephant graphic sourced from Andreas Reich with the Noun Project.
Typesetting by Warren Davison.
Geographic information depicted herein has been sourced from the following contributors: Dylan Moriarty of Project Linework | Locator Boundaries | Natural Earth Data | Populated Places, Basta Rivers | OpenStreetMap | River Mouths