Giant kelp rafts wash ashore 450 km from the nearest populations and against the dominant ocean current

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
• ² Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
• ³ citizen scientist based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
• ⁴ Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• ⁵ citizen scientist based in Merimbula, NSW, Australia.
• ⁶ Atlas of Life, Merimbula, NSW, Australia.
• ⁷ Merimbula Aquarium, Merimbula, NSW, Australia.
• ⁸ Dive Eden, Eden, NSW, Australia.
• ⁹ Centre for Ecosystem Science, and Ecology and Evolution Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
• ¹¹ Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia.
• ¹² CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia.
• ¹³ Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
• ¹⁴ Université Laval, Québec, Canada.