Kermadec Trench

The Kermadecgraben is one to 10,047 m deep and 1350 km long deep trough in the southwestern part of the Pacific Ocean, which was named after the French navigator and explorer Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec.

Geography

As the southern part of the Kermadec - Tonga trench of Kermadecgraben in the southwest Pacific is located between the Tonga Trench in the North, the South Pacific basin in the east, the North Island of New Zealand in the south and the Kermadec - Tonga - back with the Kermadecinseln in the West. It is located about 28-36 ° South latitude and 175 and 178 ° west longitude. Maximum depth Kermadecgrabens is the 10,047 m deep Witjastief 4

-28 -175 10047Koordinaten: 28 ° 0 ' 0 " S, 175 ° 0' 0 " W

Geology

The Kermadecgraben forms part of the deep seam of Australian plate to the west and the Pacific plate to the east.

Fauna

In Kermadecgraben is endemic deep-sea fish Notoliparis kermadecensis, which is the deepest occurring fish species in the southern Erdhemisphäre according to current knowledge. The fish there take the role of an Spitzenprädators and feed on smaller fish, amphipods, copepods and Vielborstern ..