Milwaukee Deep

19°35′00″N 66°30′00″W / 19.58333°N 66.5°W / 19.58333; -66.5

Milwaukee Deep

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Where the Milwaukee Deep is at

The Milwaukee Deep (also called the Milwaukee Depth), near Puerto Rico, is the deepest area in the Atlantic Ocean.^[1] It is also the eighth deepest area in the ocean.^[2] The depth of Milwaukee Deep is the 27,493 ft (8,380 m).^[1][3] Milwaukee Deep is in the Puerto Rico Trench, where the Caribbean plate and the Atlantic Ocean plate meet together.^[4] Milwaukee Deep is a part of the larger Brownson Deep which creates a very long depression.^[5]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Vaughan, T. Wayland; et al. (1940). "Chart I. - Major Ocean Basins with Depths Exceeding 4000 meters (I-XLV)" (PDF). earthguide.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-25.
2. ↑ "10 Deepest Parts of the Ocean". Marine Insight. 4 November 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
3. ↑ "deep-sea trench | geology | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
4. ↑ "Down in the Milwaukee Deep". OnMilwaukee. 26 December 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
5. ↑ Stewart, Heather Ann (October 2019). "The five deeps: The location and depth of the deepest place in each of the world's oceans". Earth-Science Reviews. 197:102896: 102896. Bibcode:2019ESRv..19702896S. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102896 – via ResearchGate.