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Since then, these ducks have been found in Hawaii,
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South America, Australia,
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and traveling slowly inside the Arctic ice.
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But 2,000 of the ducks were caught up
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in the North Pacific Gyre,
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a vortex of currents moving between Japan, Alaska,
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the Pacific Northwest,
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and the Aleutian Islands.
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Items that get caught in the Gyre usually stay in the Gyre,
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doomed to travel the same path,
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forever circulating the same waters.
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But not always.