Dordrecht Deep
The Dordrecht Deep is located in the Diamantina Trench southwest of Perth, Western Australia. The Diamantina Trench is in the eastern part of the larger Diamantina fracture zone, which stretches Script error: No such module "convert".[1] from the Ninety East Ridge to the Naturaliste Plateau, off the lower part of Southwest Australia.[2][3][4] It is one of the deepest points (surpassed by the Sunda Trench) in the Indian Ocean at Script error: No such module "convert"..[5] It is located about Script error: No such module "convert". west-southwest of Perth at Script error: No such module "Coordinates"..
It was discovered in 1960.[6] A subsequent survey in 1961 by the Australian oceanographic survey ship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". confirmed the bathymetry and conducted a scientific survey. The trench (and the Fracture Zone) was named after her.[1] Dordrecht was the name of a vessel of the Dutch East India Company, which explored the Australian west coast in 1619 and discovered the Houtman Abrolhos.
2019 ultra-deep-sea lander descent
To resolve the debate regarding the deepest point of the Indian Ocean, the Diamantina Fracture Zone was surveyed by the Five Deeps Expedition in March 2019 by the Deep Submersible Support Vessel DSSV Pressure Drop, equipped with a Kongsberg SIMRAD EM124 multibeam echosounder system. Using the multibeam echosounder system and direct measurement by an ultra-deep-sea lander a maximum water depth of Script error: No such module "convert". ±Script error: No such module "convert". at Script error: No such module "Coordinates". for the Dordrecht Deep was recorded.[7] This was shallower than previously thought,[8][9] and confirmed that the Sunda Trench, rather than the Diamantina Fracture Zone, contains the deepest point in the Indian Ocean. The gathered data was donated to the GEBCO Seabed 2030 initiative.[10][11] The expedition aimed to thoroughly map and visit the deepest points of all five of the world's oceans by the end of September 2019, at which it was successful.[12][13]
See also
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ a b Template:Cite AHD
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Page 127 for map of Indian Ocean and pp. 34-37 regarding trenches – but due to the recent discovery, some texts and maps are yet to include the feature.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ "ETOPO1 Global Relief Model". NOAA. Retrieved 2012-03-07
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Current stored details for this voyage/survey – Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- H.M.A.S. Diamantina Voyage Dm 1/61 Biological Data Overview – Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Script error: No such module "Coordinates".