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| The Louisville Ridge is located in the south-western part of Pacific Ocean and is an extended chain of seamounts 2-2,5 km high. The tops of the mountains of the ridge do not go out to the surface of the ocean and do not form islands. It has over 70 seamounts and is one of the longest seamount chains on Earth. The ridge is approximately 4,300 km (2,700 mi) long from the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge northwest to the Tonga-Kermadec Trench, where it plunges under the Indo-Australian Plate as part of the Pacific Plate. The fauna of the Louisville Ridge is deep-sea and is rather poorly studied, as well as the fauna of similar seamounts located in the open parts of the world's ocean. |
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