Q. Which of the following oceanic trenches are located in Pacific Ocean?
Manila Trench
Mariana Trench
South Sandwich Trench
Sunda Trench
Select the correct answer using the codes given below: Answer:
1, 2, 3 & 4
Notes:
The Manila Trench is an oceanic trench in the Pacific Ocean, located west of the islands of Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines. The Manila Trench subduction zone is an active convergent plate margin between the South China Sea and the northern Philippines. It is an ocean-ocean boundaries subduction zone.
The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean about 200 kilometres east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth.
The South Sandwich Trench is a deep arcuate trench in the South Atlantic Ocean lying 100 kilometres (62 mi) to the east of the South Sandwich Islands. It is the deepest trench of the Southern Atlantic Ocean, and the second deepest of the Atlantic Ocean after the Puerto Rico Trench.
The Sunda Trench, earlier known as and sometimes still indicated as the Java Trench, is an oceanic trench located in the Indian ocean near Sumatra, formed where the Australian-Capricorn plates subduct under a part of the Eurasian Plate.