Tonga Trench
[ tong-guh-trench ]
noun
an oceanic trench in the South Pacific Ocean that lies as a nearly linear stretch from the northern end of the Kermadec Trench northward to an area south of Samoa, with rates of convergence along the two trenches’ subduction system being among the world’s fastest: the deepest trench in the Southern Hemisphere and the site of the Horizon Deep.
Origin of Tonga Trench
1First recorded in 1910–15; named after the Tonga archipelago
Words Nearby Tonga Trench
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