The Izu-Ogasawara Trench (伊豆・小笠原海溝 Izu-Ogasawara Kaikō), also known as Izu-Bonin Trench is an oceanic trench in the western Pacific Ocean. It stretches from Japan to the northernmost section of Mariana Trench[1]. The Izu-Ogasawara Trench is an extension of the Japan Trench. Here, the Pacific Plate is being subducted beneath the Philippine Sea Plate, creating the Izu Islands and Bonin Islands on the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc system. [2].
It is 9,780 m at its deepest.
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Coordinates: 29°39′00″N 142°40′59″E / 29.650°N 142.683°E
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