Special Sub-Topic: Famous Sea Trenches Authored by: author Sub-topic of: Physical Geography

This trench, also called the Sunda Double Trench, is a deep submarine depression in the eastern Indian Ocean. It reaches a maximum depth of 24,440 feet and is the deepest trench of the Indian Ocean.

Java Trench. The Java Trench is located off the islands of Java and Sumatra, Indonesia.

This trench is a submarine depression in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is parallel to the northern coast of the Caribbean island after which it is named.

Puerto Rico Trench. The Milwaukee Depth, the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean at 27,493 feet, is situated here.

This is the deepest trench of the South Atlantic Ocean. It is named after a British island group.

South Sandwich Trench. The South Sandwich Trench (and islands) are situated just north of the Antarctic.

This is the deepest trench of the Pacific Ocean, and also of the world. Maximum depth is 36,198 feet.

Mariana Trench. The deepest point is called Challenger Deep and is named after the British survey ship HMS Challenger.

This trench in the west Pacific reaches a maximum depth of 34,578 feet. It is situated in a sea and near a country with the same name as the trench.

Philippine Trench. The Japan Trench is also named after a sea and a country, but is not as deep as the Philippine Trench.

This trench north east of New Zealand reaches a maximum depth of 32,964 feet.

Kermadec Trench. The Kermadec Trench is often linked with the Tonga Trench and called the Tonga-Kermadec Arc, of which the Kermadec Trench is the southern part.

This is the name of any of several deeps in the Pacific Ocean off the east coast of Japan.

Japan Trench. The Japan Trench is situated north of the Izu-Bonin Trench and south of the Kuril Trench.

This trench extends north-northeast from the North Island of New Zealand. Its maximum depth is 32,000 feet.

Tonga Trench. The Tonga Trench is the northern part of the Tonga-Kermadec Arc.

This trench is a deep submarine depression in the western Pacific. It extends from offshore central Kamchatka, Russia to Hokkaido, Japan.

Kuril Trench. The Kuril Trench is situated off the Kuril Islands, north of the Japan Trench.

This trench, also called the West Caroline Trench, is a deep submarine trench located in the western Pacific. It is named after an island group. Maximum depth is 27,976 feet.

Yap Trench. The Yap Trench is one section of a continuous system of trenches which include Izu-Bonin, Mariana, Yap and Palau Trenches.

This trench is a narrow submarine depression lying near the Equator in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. It reaches a maximum depth of 24,455 feet.

Romanche Trench. The Romanche Trench is also called the Romanche Gap.

This trench, also called the Bartlett Deep, is a relatively narrow submarine trench on the floor of the western Caribbean sea between Jamaica and the island group after which it is named.

Cayman Trench. It was long thought that the Cayman Trench contained the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea. But now it is known that the deepest point is in the Puerto Rico Trench (The Milwaukee Depth).

This trench in the South Pacific Ocean is named after two South American countries.

Peru-Chile Trench. The Peru-Chile Trench is situated south of the Middle America Trench, which is located off the coast of Mexico.

This trench is situated east of Japan, south of the Japan Trench, and is named after a Japanese island group.

Bonin Trench. The Bonin Trench is sometimes linked with nearby Izu Trench and called Bonin-Izu Trench. The Ryukyu Trench is also named after a Japanese island group, but is situated south of Japan.

This trench in the north Pacific Ocean is named after a US island group and reaches a maximum depth of 26,574 feet.

Aleutian Trench. The Aleutian Islands belong to Alaska.