King's Trough even an oblique meteor impact. The trough, being in an apparently geologically stable region, has been studied as a possible location for radioactive waste disposal. King's Trough King's Trough is an undersea trough in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located on the east side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, northwest of the Açores-Biscay rise and roughly 400 km NNE of the Azores. It is about 400 km long, running in a NW–SE direction. To the east it branches into the Peake Deep and Freen Deep. The center depth is 4500 m. Surrounding the trough are high ridges and seamounts, such as
Rockall Bank dispute "Faroes-Rockall Plateau", an "elevated plain with its summit in the Faroe Islands". Iceland does not claim the rock itself, considering it irrelevant as far as delimitation of EEZs and continental shelf is concerned. Iceland however claims an extended continental shelf in the Hatton-Rockall area. Despite its long history of human habitation into the 20th century, Iceland considers St. Kilda to be "a minuscule, effectively uninhabited, islet, categorized under article 121(3) of the Law of the Sea Convention". Furthermore, St. Kilda lies outside the British territorial sea limit. Therefore, it is not an "equitable basepoint for an equidistant line". Iceland ratified