South Sandwich Trench
The South Sandwich Trench is a deep- sea channel up to 8,264 m deep and 965 km long in the southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean . It contains the second deepest part of the Atlantic and the deepest part of the southern ocean.
geography
The South Sandwich Trench is located between the South Georgia Sill in the northwest, the South Sandwich Sill in the northeast, the Atlantic-Indian-South Polar Basin in the south, the South Sandwich Islands in the southwest and South Georgia in the west. There it lies between about 52 and 63 ° south latitude and 24 and 30 ° west longitude . The southern part of the trench extends south of 60 ° south latitude and thus extends into the Southern Ocean .
geology
The South Sandwich Trench forms the deeply cut and northeastern seam of the sandwich plate in the west and the South American plate in the east.
Second deepest point in the Atlantic and deepest point in the Southern Ocean
Located in the South Sandwich Trench lying Meteor depth , a 8,264 m below sea level lying Meerestief , represents the second deepest part of the Atlantic is. Where the South Sandwich Trench at 60 ° south latitude in the Southern Ocean extends, is the deepest point of this ocean. In 2019 Victor Vescovo reached this deepest point in the Southern Ocean with the Limiting Factor submersible and named it "Factorian Deep".
Surname
The South Sandwich Trench is, like the neighboring South Sandwich Islands, named after the English naval admiral John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (fourth Earl of Sandwich ; 1718–1792).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ben Taub, Paolo Pellegrin: Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea: The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth . In: The New Yorker , May 10, 2020.
Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 25 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ W.