Kermadec Trench
The Kermadec Trench is a deep sea channel up to 10,047 m deep and 1,350 km long in the south-western part of the Pacific Ocean , which was named after the French navigator and explorer Jean Michel Huon de Kermadec .
geography
As the southern part of the Kermadec-Tonga Trench , the Kermadec Trench is located in the southwestern Pacific between the Tonga Trench in the north, the South Pacific Basin in the east, the North Island of New Zealand in the south and the Kermadec-Tonga Ridge with the Kermadec Islands in the west. It is located approximately between 28 and 36 ° south latitude and 175 and 178 ° west longitude . The deepest point of the Kermadec trench is the 10,047 m deep Vitja deep 4 .
Coordinates: 28 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 175 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W.
geology
The Kermadec Trench forms part of the deeply cut seam between the Australian plate in the west and the Pacific plate in the east.
fauna
The deep-sea fish Notoliparis kermadecensis occurs endemically in the Kermadec Trench and, according to current knowledge, is the deepest fish species in the southern hemisphere. The fish there take on the role of a top predator and feed on smaller fish, amphipods , copepods and polystyrene .