The rotating wire bristles cleared a roughly 5cm-wide patch on an area of ground dubbed "Ekwir 1" by scientists.

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Big Flat sits in the middle of the Bureau of Land Management's 64, 000-acre King Range National Conservation Area, a patch of northern California so rugged that the engineers who built Highway 1, which hugs the coast from San Diego to Oregon, took the road 30 miles inland here to avoid it.

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They had numerous chances to wrap up an aggregate victory on their home patch, with substitute Collins Babajide going close with a header and two efforts from inside the area in the last 15 minutes.

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And he describes the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an enormous expanse of the Pacific Ocean where currents concentrate the trash over a continent-sized area.

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