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LicenseToy
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Toy
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Toy
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Toy
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Toy
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Toy
Science Museum Group Collection
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Toy, 'The First Years' 'Friendly Floatee' red (faded to pale yellow) plastic beaver, swept overboard in North Pacific in 1992 and washed up in Sitka, Alaska. Used by Curtis Ebbesmeyer and other oceanographers, to track drift patterns.
These plastic beavers were part of a consignment of nearly 30,000 plastic toys that fell into the North Pacific from a container ship in 1992. Many of these toys inadvertently became part of a massive scientific study: beachcombers have been finding them ever since, helping oceanographers refine their models of ocean surface currents.
Details
- Category:
- Oceanography
- Object Number:
- 2005-400
- Materials:
- plastic (unidentified)
- Measurements:
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overall: 45 mm x 55 mm x 120 mm, , .004kg
- type:
- toy
- credit:
- Rebecca, Kamden and Kaitlyn Johnson
