THE DEEPEST POINT ON LAND FOUND IN ANTARCTICA

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          The deepest point of Earth's continents has been identified in Queen Mary Land, East Antarctica. The canyon buried under the ice of the Denman Glacier reaches 11,500 feet (3.5 kilometers) below sea level, for comparison, the lowest exposed land on Earth, the Dead Sea in the Jordan Rift Valley, is just 1,355 feet (413 meters) below sea level.

The Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean is still the deepest point on Earth with 36,037 feet (10.9 kilometers), but is geologically speaking part of the ocenic crust.

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