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The Challenger Deep is the deepest known spot in the ocean
Located in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific, the Challenger Deep plunges nearly eleven kilometres down.
If Mount Everest were placed into the Challenger Deep, its peak would still be covered by more than two kilometres of ocean water. The water pressure at the bottom exceeds 1,000 times standard atmospheric pressure at sea level. Despite these extreme conditions, specialized organisms thrive around deep hydrothermal vents.
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The Challenger Deep is the deepest known spot in the ocean: the short answers
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- Located in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific, the Challenger Deep plunges nearly eleven kilometres down. The figure is taken from National Geographic, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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