Mariana Trench

deepest oceanic trench on Earth

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The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean on Earth, located in the western Pacific Ocean. It matters because it represents the extreme depths of our planet's oceans and provides scientists with a unique environment to study deep-sea life and Earth's geological processes.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: oceanic trench
Named after: Mariana Islands
Country: United States
Located in: Northern Mariana Islands
Elevation: -10994
Image: Marianatrenchmap.png

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Commons category: Mariana Trench
described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
lowest point: Challenger Deep
native label: Mariana Trench

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Encyclopedic overview

Location of the Mariana Trench

The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2,550 km (1,580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) in width. The maximum known depth is 10,935 ± 6 metres (35,876 ± 20 ft; 5,979.3 ± 3.3 fathoms; 6.7947 ± 0.0037 mi) at the southern end of a small slot-shaped valley in its floor known as the Challenger Deep. This makes the deepest point of the trench is more than 2 km (1.2 mi) farther from sea level than the peak of Mount Everest.

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