Thirty years of marine debris in the Southern Ocean: annual surveys of two island shores in the Scotia Sea

• Published in: Environment International
• Main Authors: Waluda, Claire M., Staniland, Iain J., Dunn, Michael J., Thorpe, Sally E., Grilly, Emily, Whitelaw, Mari, Hughes, Kevin A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Austral; Scotia Sea; South Orkney Islands; Bird Island; Signy Island; Main Bay; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/525363/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/525363/1/Waluda_2020_Thirty.pdf; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412019336293?via%3Dihub

We report on three decades of repeat surveys of beached marine debris at two locations in the Scotia Sea, in the Southwest Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Between October 1989 and March 2019 10,112 items of beached debris were recovered from Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia in the norther...