Sunda Trench

The Sunda Trench (also called Java trench ) is a 7,455 m deep and up to 2250 km long deepwater channel in front of the Sunda arc in the northeast of the Indian Ocean.

Geography

The Sunda Trench is located south of the Asian Sunda between Sumatra to the northwest, Java in the north, including Lombok, Sumbawa and Sumba in the Northeast, the Timor Sea to the east, the North Australian Basin in the South East, the North West Australian Basin and the Christmas Island in the South and Southwest and the Keeling basin in the west.

The elongated Sunda Trench, which is caused by the subduction of the Australian plate under the Eurasian plate ( or continues to be produced ), is about 5 to 12 ° south latitude and 100 ° and 120 ° east longitude.

Second Lowest and deepest points of the Indian Ocean

Often the 7,455 m deep Sunda Trench is reported as the lowest region of the Indian Ocean; However, this is with 8047 m below sea level, far away Diamantinatief. The deepest part of the Sunda Trench is located about 320 km south of Yogyakarta.