Kuril Trench
The Kuril Trench (also called the Kuril Kamchatka Trench ) is a 2250 km long deep sea channel in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean . At 10,542 m, the deepest point is Vitya 3 . It is located between the Kuril Islands to the west and northwest, Kamchatka to the north, the behind the Aleutian Trench lying Commander Islands in the Northeast, the Northwest Pacific Basin to the east, southeast and south and the Japan Trench and the Japanese island of Hokkaido in the southwest. It lies between 41 and 56 ° more northLatitude and 146 and 167 degrees east longitude .
The Kuril Trench forms the subduction zone of the Pacific plate , which is subducted here under the Okhotsk plate . It forms part of the very deeply incised seam between the Pacific Plate in the south and the North American Plate in the north and the Okhotsk Plate in the northwest.
The deep-sea fish Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis occurs in the Kuril Trench, which was considered to be the deepest fish species before the discovery of Pseudoliparis swirei . Live specimens were filmed at a depth of 7703 meters
See also
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- Albert E. Theberge: George Belknap and the Thomson Sounding Machine In: Hydro International , Volume 18, No. 2, 2014, ISSN 1385-4569 , pp. 27-31 ( online as PDF ; 92.4 kB).
- ^ Jørgen G. Nielsen: Fishes from depths exceeding 6,000 meters. Pages 113-124, Galathea Report, Scientific Results of The Danish Deep-Sea Expedition Round the World 1950-52, Volume 7, Copenhagen 1964, PDF
- ↑ - Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis - Deepest Ocean Camera Views Surprisingly Cute Snailfish
- ↑ Toyonobu Fujii, Alan J. Jamieson, Martin Solan, Philip M. Bagley & Imants G. Priede: A Large Aggregation of Liparids at 7703 meters and a Reappraisal of the Abundance and Diversity of Hadal Fish. BioScience 60 (7): 506-515. 2010, doi : 10.1525 / bio.2010.60.7.6 PDF
Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ N , 155 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E