South Sandwich Trench

The South Sandwich Trench is a 8,264 m deep and up to 965 km long deep trough in the southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains the second lowest point of the Atlantic and the deepest part of the Southern Ocean.

Geography

There, the South Sandwich Trench is located between the Südgeorgienschwelle in the northwest, the South Sandwich threshold in the Northeast, the Atlantic- Indian - Südpolarbecken in the South, the South Sandwich Islands in the South West and South Georgia in the West. He is about 52-63 ° South latitude and 24 ° and 30 ° west longitude. The southern part of the trench extends south of 60 ° south latitude and therefore extends into the Southern Ocean.

Geology

The South Sandwich Trench is the deeply incised and northeastern interface of sandwich plate in the West and South American plate to the east.

Second Deepest point of the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean and the Southern Ocean

Located along the South Sandwich Trench Meteor depth, a 8,264 m lying below sea level, sea depth, represents the second deepest part of the Atlantic dar. Where the South Sandwich trench extends at 60 ° south latitude in the Southern Ocean, is the deepest point the Southern Ocean.

Name

The South Sandwich Trench is how the neighboring South Sandwich Islands, after the British Navy Admiral John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (fourth Earl of Sandwich, 1718-1792 ) named.