Diamantina Fracture Zone Ridge Plateau. All these features are mirrored by corresponding topography on the other side of the Southeast Indian Ridge. Broken Ridge Plateau was formed at the ridge together with the Kerguelen Plateau. Diamantina Fracture Zone was first detected by and RV Argo in 1960. It is named after , which did further exploration in 1961. The Diamantina Deep is the zone's deepest location, located about 1 125 km West-South-West of Perth, Western Australia, at . This is not the deepest point in the Indian Ocean: the CIA's Physical Map of the World lists the Java Trench as such. On the
Oceanic trench Oceanic trench Oceanic trenches are topographic depressions of the sea floor, relatively narrow in width, but very long. These oceanographic features are the deepest parts of the ocean floor. Oceanic trenches are a distinctive morphological feature of convergent plate boundaries, along which lithospheric plates move towards each other at rates that vary from a few millimeters to over ten centimeters per year. A trench marks the position at which the flexed, subducting slab begins to descend beneath another lithospheric slab. Trenches are generally parallel to a volcanic island arc, and about from a volcanic arc. Oceanic trenches typically extend below