Geo Quiz and answer

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For today’s Geo Quiz we’re searching for a Pacific island atoll that lies just about halfway between North America and Asia. It’s right near the International Date Line?and its beaches are often littered with trash came from a floating mass of plastic trash called the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch.

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