Pacific-Antarctic Ridge

The Pacific-Antarctic Ridge is a divergent tectonic plate boundary located on the seafloor of the South Pacific Ocean, separating the Pacific plate from the Antarctic plate.
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Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
  • Type: Ridge
  • Description: oceanic ridge at the boundary between the Pacific and Antarctic tectonic plates
  • Also known as: Antarctic Pacific Ridge”, “Dorsale du Pacifique Sud”, “Pacific–Antarctic Ridge”, “South Pacific Ridge”, “South Pacific Rise”, “Südpazifischer Rücken”, “Yuzhno-Tikhookeanskiy Khrebet”, and “Yuzhno-Tikhookeanskoye Podnyatiye

Pacific-Antarctic Ridge

Latitude
-62° or 62° south
Longitude
-157° or 157° west
Open location code
33C52222+22
Geo­Names ID
4036682
Wiki­data ID
Q558800
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Pacific-Antarctic Ridge” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: حيد المحيط الهادئ والقطب الجنوبي
  • Arabic: سلسلة تلال المحيط الهادئ والقطب الجنوبي
  • Azerbaijani: Cənubi Sakit okean silsiləsi
  • Basque: Pazifiko-Antartikako dortsala
  • Belarusian: Ціхаакіянска-Антарктычны сьцяг
  • Catalan: dorsal Pacífic-Antàrtica
  • Catalan: Dorsal Pacífic-Antàrtica
  • Catalan: Dorsal pacífica-antàrtica
  • Cebuano: Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
  • Chinese: 太平洋-南极洋脊
  • Chinese: 太平洋-南極洋脊
  • Chinese: 太平洋-南極海嶺
  • Croatian: Tihooceansko-antarktički hrbat
  • French: Dorsale Pacifique-Antarctique
  • Galician: Dorsal Pacífico-Antártica
  • German: Pazifisch-Antarktischer Rücken
  • Hebrew: הרכס הפסיפי-אנטארקטי
  • Italian: Dorsale Pacifico-Antartica
  • Japanese: 太平洋南極海嶺
  • Latin: Iugum Pacifico-Antarcticum
  • Macedonian: Тихоокеанско-антарктички Гребен
  • Persian: پشته اقیانوس آرام-جنوبگان
  • Polish: Grzbiet Pacyficzno-Antarktyczny
  • Polish: Grzbiet Południowopacyficzny
  • Russian: Южно-Тихоокеанское поднятие
  • Serbian: Pacifičko-Antarktički greben
  • Spanish: Dorsal Pacífico-Antártica
  • Swahili: Mgongo wa bahari ya Pasifiki-Antaktiki
  • Swedish: Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
  • Ukrainian: Тихоокеансько-Антарктичний хребет
  • Vietnamese: Sống núi Thái Bình Dương - Nam Cực
  • Wu Chinese: 太平洋-南极洋脊
  • Yue Chinese: 太平洋-南極海嶺

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