Japan Trench
Japan Trench The oceanic trench which lies between the northern Japanese islands (an island arc) bordering the Eurasian Plate and the Pacific Plate.
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TRANSPORTATION… Aleutian Islands , ALEUTIAN ISLANDS. Formerly called the Catherine Archipelago, the Aleutian Islands comprise some 150 mostly volcanic islands extending twelve thousand…
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