An island of debris the size of Texas is floating across the Pacific towards the United States.
The junk is wreckage from the tsunami that devastated areas of eastern Japan in 2011.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, the "island" is currently to the north-east of Hawaii.
A larger but less concentrated area of debris stretches across the ocean from Alaska to the Philippines.
Wreckage from the tsunami has been reaching the North American coast for the past two years.
In June 2012 a 70ft-dock arrived on a beach in Oregon, while a shrimping vessel nearly made it all the way to Alaska.
Around five million tons is estimated to have been washed into the Pacific by the tsunami, but two-thirds sank quickly near the Japanese coast.
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