South East Indian Ridge

Southeast Indian Ridge (yellow line)

The Southeast Indian Ridge (also Australian-Antarctic Ridge) is a mid-ocean ridge , it forms the interface between the Antarctic Plate and the Australian Plate .

The Southeast Indian Ridge merges in the west ( 25.5 °  S , 70 °  E ) into the Central Indian Ridge and the Southwest Indian Ridge and in the east ( 61.3 °  S , 160 °  E ) in the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge and the plate boundary between the Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate .

The St. Paul and Amsterdam archipelago lies on the south-east Indian ridge .

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1. ↑ Position of the Rodrigues triple point, bibcode : 1988JGR .... 9313524R
2. ↑ E. Lodolo, F. Coren: Position of the Macquarie triple point  ( page can no longer be called up , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.4 MB)