Diamantina Fracture Zone 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 lies to the south of the mideastern Indian Ocean features of the Wharton Basin and Perth Basin, and to the south west of the Naturaliste Plateau. Being parallel to the Southeast Indian Ridge, Diamantina Fracture Zone is not a real fracture zone in the sense of plate tectonics, but rather an escarpment, separating two oceanic plateaus. In fact its extension to the west is called Diamantina Escarpment. This is the southern border of the Broken
HMAS Diamantina (K377) the flood, while volunteers adjusted the ropes to prevent the ship bashing against the dry dock. The ship was undamaged. HMAS Diamantina (K377) HMAS "Diamantina" (K377/F377/A266/GOR266), named after the Diamantina River in Queensland, is a that served the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Constructed in the mid-1940s, "Diamantina" was active from 1945 until 1946, was placed in reserve, then was recommissioned as a survey ship from 1959 until 1980. Following her second decommissioning, the frigate was preserved at the Queensland Maritime Museum as a museum ship. She was the last World War II-era frigate to leave RAN service, and of the