SOUTH SANDWICH TRENCH Definition & Meaning

South Sandwich Trench

[south sand-wich trench]

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an arc-shaped oceanic trench that runs along the east side of the South Sandwich Islands, the deepest trench in the South Atlantic Ocean and the site of the Meteor Deep: extends also into the Southern Ocean, where it is the site of the Factorian Deep.

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First recorded in 1935–40

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It's a depression called Factorian Deep at the far southern end of the South Sandwich Trench.

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He will now head to the South Sandwich trench in the Southern Ocean, about 100km east of the South Sandwich Islands.

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That ability will allow it to carry out the first direct sampling of the 8.5-kilometre-deep South Sandwich Trench in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

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