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.
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
- Categories: mid-ocean ridge and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62° or 62° south
Longitude
-157° or 157° west
Open location code
33C52222+22
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Indonesian: “Punggung Pasifik–Antarktika”
- Italian: “Dorsale Pacifico-Antartica”
- Japanese: “太平洋南極海嶺”
- Korean: “태평양-남극 해령”
- 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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