Diamantina Deep
Is located in the Diamantina Trench

Diamantina Trench

The Diamantina Fracture Zone is an area of the south-eastern Indian Ocean seafloor, and has a range of ridges and trenches.It lies to the south of the mid eastern Indian Ocean features of the Wharton Basin and Perth Basin, and to the south west of the Naturaliste Plateau.The Diamantina Deep, the...

 south west of Perth, Western Australia

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

. The Diamantina Trench is in the eastern part of the larger Diamantina Fracture Zone which stretches from the Ninety East Ridge

Ninety East Ridge

The Ninety East Ridge is a linear, aseismic, age-progressive seamount chain in the Indian Ocean and is named for its near-parallel strike along the 90th meridian...

 to the Naturaliste Plateau

Naturaliste Plateau

The Naturaliste Plateau is one of several large submarine plateaus extending from Western Australia into the Indian Ocean. It covers an area of 90,000 square kilometres and has water depths from 1500 to 5000 metres deep....

 which lies of the lower part of Southwest Australia

Southwest Australia

Southwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot that includes the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions of Western Australia. The region has a wet-winter, dry-summer Mediterranean climate, one of five such regions in the world...

.

A survey in 1961 by the Australian

Royal Australian Navy

The Royal Australian Navy is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force: the Commonwealth Naval Forces...

 oceanographic survey ship HMAS Diamantina confirmed the bathymetry

Bathymetry

Bathymetry is the study of underwater depth of lake or ocean floors. In other words, bathymetry is the underwater equivalent to hypsometry. The name comes from Greek βαθύς , "deep", and μέτρον , "measure"...

as well as conducting a scientific survey. The trench was named after HMAS Diamantina.

It is located about 1,125 km west-south-west of Perth at 35°S and 104°E. and has been measured at 8,047 metres (26,401 feet) deep.

External links

• http://www.marine.csiro.au/maru/marlin_admin.survey_details?srv_id=337&src_id=4&rscr=plst
• http://www.marine.csiro.au/marq/edd_search.Browse_Citation?txtSession=5151