Aleutian Trench

Aleutian Trench in front of the Aleutians (at the bottom of the picture)

Tectonic plates with continents in the background

North American plate

Pacific plate

The Aleutian Trench is a deep sea channel up to 7,822 m deep and 3,200 km long in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean (Pacific).

geography

It is located between the Aleutian Islands in the north, the elongated Alaska Peninsula in the northeast, the North Pacific Basin in the south, the North Pacific Ridge in the south-south-west, Kamchatka behind the Kuril Trench in the west and the Commander Islands in the north - west. There it lies between about 50 and 55 ° north latitude and 167 ° east and 158 ° west longitude .

geology

The Aleutian Trench forms part of the deeply cut northern seam between the North American Plate in the north and the Pacific Plate in the south.

See also

• Ocean depth
• Sea depth
• List of deep sea trenches

Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 172 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E