Diamantina Fracture Zone western side of the Diamantina Fracture Zone at is another, larger pit, named Dordrecht Hole, with a north-south extent of 50 km. Its maximum depth is 7079 m at . "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. The shallowest point in the area is the 1125-metre point in the Broken Ridge close to Ninety East Ridge. Diamantina Fracture Zone The Diamantina Fracture Zone is an area of the south-eastern Indian Ocean seafloor. It has a range of ridges and trenches. It
Rocky Mountain Trench Castlegar, BC after a meander through the United States as the Kootenai River (US spelling). For convenience the Rocky Mountain Trench may be divided into two sections, the Northern Rocky Mountain Trench and Southern Rocky Mountain Trench. The dividing point reflects the separation of north and easterly flows to the Arctic Ocean versus south and westerly flows to the Pacific Ocean. A break in the valley system at ~54°N near Prince George, British Columbia may be used for this purpose. The northern portion of the Trench is dominated by strike-slip faulting, while the southern part of the Trench was created