- New Hebrides Trench - Wikipedia
It lies to the northeast of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands, to the southwest of Vanuatu (formerly known as the New Hebrides), east of Australia, and south of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands The trench was formed as a result of a subduction zone
- New Hebrides Trench | Deep-Sea, Abyssal Plain Abyssal Zone - Britannica
New Hebrides Trench, submarine trench in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, on the periphery of the Coral Sea, between the islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia It reaches maximum depths of some 25,000 feet (7,600 metres) or more, the deepest soundings in the whole Coral Sea region
- The 13 Deepest Trenches in the Ocean - A-Z Animals
The New Hebrides Trench, measuring 24,934 feet deep, exists in the southwestern Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia, between the islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia The subduction of the Australian Plate under the New Hebrides Plate formed the New Hebrides Trench
- New Hebrides trench: First look at unexplored deep sea - BBC
There are more than 30 deep-sea trenches around the world, and most of these narrow fissures in the seafloor lie in the Pacific Ocean Until this expedition, the depths of New Hebrides
- New Hebrides-New Britain subduction zone initiation
The collision of the Ontong Java plateau with the trench of the Melanesian subduction zone is suggested to have caused a flip in subduction polarity, initiating the New Hebrides-New Britain subduction zone
- Marine Regions · South New Hebrides Trench (Trench)
Shown as New Hebrides Trench in the ACUF Gazetteer
- Earth:New Hebrides Trench - HandWiki
At the New Hebrides Trench, the Australian plate is being subducted underneath the New Hebrides microplate in the Vanuatu subduction zone (previously called the New Hebrides subduction zone) towards the east where the trench has a north-south orientation
- Hadal zones of the Southwest Pacific and east Indian oceans
South of the island of Malampa, 358 km south of the Santa Cruz Trench, the New Hebrides Trench, an arcuate trench runs for 1800 km south between the south islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia and then to the east terminating at the southern islands of Fiji (Fig 4 E)
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