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A fact from Ocean gyre appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 November 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the North Pacific Gyre was responsible for depositing hundreds of lost Nike sneakers on the western shores of North America in 1991?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/November.

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This article could use a map showing where the major gyres in the world's oceans are, and how they relate to major ocean currents. There are a number of maps floating around online which could provide the source information for such a map, though they tend to either show currents or gyres, but not both.

Wind-Driven Surface Currents: Gyres Background - Adapted from the American Meteorological Society, map showing current names
Encyclopedia of Earth - Map showing current names and temperatures - Available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License v2.5? Original source is [1]
PowerPoint Presentation - Slide 5 shows schematic map of gyres and systems.

-- Beland (talk) 00:56, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Origin of word "gyre"

I had the impression that "gyre" was another of the neologisms that Lewis Carrol used in "Jabberwocky", i.e. "... the slithy toves did gyre and gimbal in the wabe". Did its use predate that poem? Should, at least, there be a disambiguation page mentioning that use? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hsfrey (talk • contribs) 20:42, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The noun is from Latin gyrus, originally meaning a ring. To find when the word was first used in a given sense, for example as a verb "to gyre" or as a noun meaning "ocean vortex," you can check the Oxford English Dictionary. It attempts to give the earliest known citation for each sense. 70.72.144.66 (talk) 02:14, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Recent renaming

Hello Epipelagic (talk · contribs). Firstly, i apologize for the revert in renaming this page. My point is that a lot of articles is linked to this page as Oceanic gyres, and there may be reasons for that. Perhaps we need to set a poll (oppose or propose process) to see if this move is really worth it. Kind regards. Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 10:22, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I did not make the name change without examining usage. Google gives 34,900 hits for "Ocean gyre" and 10,200 hits for "Oceanic gyre", a ratio of 3.4:1 in favour of "Ocean gyre". More to the point, Google Scholar gives 981 hits for "Ocean gyre" and 276 hits for "Oceanic gyre", a ratio of 3.6:1 in favour of "Ocean gyre". The usage is clear and does not need a poll. --Epipelagic (talk) 12:10, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I understand. Please accept my apology, i should've checked that. There seems to be a problem with moving back the talkpage to "Talk: Ocean gyre", will fix it by today. Regards

. Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 01:32, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 05:20, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Beaufort Gyre

No mention of this important gyre ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SombreGreenbul (talk • contribs) 13:00, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]