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The original article download is a KMZ file but I extracted the KML and loaded into a custom google map so it could be viewed online. Interesting stuff. There are a lot of mustard gas bombs rusting and leaking into the sea. 29 tons* off the coast of Honolulu, for a particularly egregious example.

* and a 1500 ton dump nearby. I'm going to stop editing, because I keep finding bigger and bigger ones...

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From an infographic point of view, it might be worthwhile to use different colors or sizes of icons, to indicate the relative size of the munitions dumped compared to the others. Of course, you'd use ranges (0-10, 11-20, etc) and probably a logarithmic scale (0-10, 11-100, 101-1000, etc) ...

If you're really motivated, you might incorporate age as well.

Well done. I hope this raises awareness. Thanks for posting this!

That would be a fantastic way to display it, yeah. I imagine it can be done with the google maps API, but that's a lot more effort than it took for me to upload it, haha.

30,000 tons on the east coast of Australia

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