South Shetland Trough
The South Shetland Trough is an undersea trough located north of the South Shetland Islands, which are a group of Antarctic islands. It is the remnant of a subduction zone where the defunct Phoenix Plate, now part of the Antarctic Plate, subducted under the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands.- Trough
- …is also known as “South Shetland Trench”
- Description: antarctic undersea trough
South Shetland Trough
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-61° or 61° south
Longitude
-59.5° or 59° 30′ west
Open location code
38F22G22+22
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“South Shetland Trough” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “South Shetland Trough”
- Chinese: “南設得蘭海溝”
- German: “South Shetland Trough”
- Polish: “Rów Południowoszetlandzki”
- Spanish: “Canal Shetland del Sur”
- Swedish: “South Shetland Trough”
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