Challenger Deep

English Etymology Named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger, whose expedition of 1872–1876 made the first recordings of its depth. Proper noun Challenger Deep en deep trench/Mariana Trench ocean/Pacific Ocean; a point in the Mariana Trench, known as the deepest point in the world's oceans. en 1909 June Oscar C. S. Carter Earthquakes in the Light of the New Seismology Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania https://archive.org/details/journalfranklini167fran/ CLXVII 6 Philadelphia 873864684 459–460 https://archive.org/details/journalfranklini167fran/page/459/ The deepest sounding in the Pacific is 31,614 feet, known as the Challenger deep, sometimes called the Nero deep, south of the Ladrone Islands, and lacks only 66 feet of being 6 miles in depth. Coordinate terms en HMRG Deep en Sirena Deep en Horizon Deep Translations deepest point in the world Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 挑戰者深淵 Tiāozhànzhě Shēnyuān Finnish: fi Challengerin syvänne French: fr Challenger Deep m German: de Challengertief n Russian: ru Бе́здна Че́лленджера f Spanish: es abismo de Challenger m Swedish: sv Challengerdjupet n Tagalog: tl Further reading pn en Oceanography Places