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The answer to today’s Geo Quiz is the Loop Peninsula, Country Clare, Ireland. That’s where a message n a bottle washed up recently, carried all the way from Florida (3700 miles away) by the Gulf Stream. The bottle belongs to a student at Melbourne High School in Florida who was studying ocean currents.

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