Ship Position at Sunrise – South of King Cove – Along The Aleutian Trench.

Part of the Hall of Planet Earth. The Aleutian Trench, extending 2,900 kilometers from the Gulf of Alaska to Kamchatka, marks the place where the Pacific plate is being subducted beneath the North American plate. The two plates are approaching each other at about 6 centimeters a year. The Aleutian Trench is four miles deep at its deepest point, near the west end of the Aleutian Islands. It is between 80 and 160 km (50 and 100 miles) wide. The trench reaches depths of 7620 m (25,000 ft) in some places. Both ends of the trench stop at a triple junction where three crustal plates meet at the southeast coast of Alaska and the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.

King Cove (Aleut: Agdaaĝux̂)^[4] is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States 600 nautical miles (1,000 km) SW of Anchorage at the end of the Alaska Peninsula, is home to Peter Pan Seafood’s largest processing facility. As of the 2010 census, its population was 938, up from 792 in 2000, but at the 2020 census, this had reduced to 757.

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