Philippine Trench
Categories: Geography of the Philippines | Oceanic trenches
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Philippine Trench, to the east of the Philippine islands.
The Philippine Trench is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippine islands. It stretches with a length of approximately 1,320 km and a width of round about 30 km from the northeast top of Luzon up to the Indonesian island of Malacca Halmahera. Its deepest point, the Galathea Depth, has a depth of 10,540 meters.
Until 1970, the Philippine Trench was regarded as the deepest point of the earth. Since then, deeper trenches have been discovered, including the Mariana Trench (11,034 meters), the Tonga Trench (10,882 meters) and the Kuril Trench (10,542 meters).
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