Solomon Islands Trench
The Solomon Islands Trench (also called Santa Cruz Trench ) is a deep- sea channel up to 9176 m deep and 400 km long in the southwestern part of the Pacific Ocean .
Geographical location
The Solomon Islands Trench is roughly between the Santa Cruz Islands in the northeast, Vanuatu in the southeast, the Coral Sea in the southwest and Makira in the northwest. It is roughly between 11 and 14 ° south latitude and 165 and 167 ° east longitude .
geology
The Solomon Islands Trench forms part of the deeply incised seam between the Australian plate in the southwest and the Pacific plate in the northeast. It consists of two sub-areas, some of which are referred to differently in the literature: The north-western section is known as the San Cristobal Trench , but also as the Solomon Islands Trench . The south-western section is again referred to as the Torres Trench or Santa Cruz Trench . The north-western part is up to 8310 m deep, the south-eastern part is given with a depth of 9176 m and 9165 m ( Argo depth ).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Giuseppe Motta: ADAC World Atlas: the image of our world . ADAC-Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-87003-690-7 , p. 136 .
- ↑ a b c Knaur's great world atlas . 18th corrected edition. Droemer-Knaur Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-8289-3573-7 , p. 10 .
Coordinates: 11 ° 7 ′ 28 ″ S , 165 ° 10 ′ 46 ″ E