examples of island arcs

Examples




Island arc Country Trench Basin or marginal sea Plate Subducting plate

Aleutian Islands United States Aleutian Trench Bering Sea North American Plate Pacific Plate


Kuril Islands Russia Kuril-Kamchatka Trench Sea of Okhotsk North American Plate Pacific Plate

Japanese Archipelago Japan Japan Trench、Nankai Trough Sea of Japan North American Plate, Eurasian Plate Pacific Plate, Philippine Sea Plate

Ryukyu Islands Japan Ryukyu Trench East China Sea (Okinawa Trough) Eurasian Plate Philippine Sea Plate

Philippine Islands Philippines Philippine Trench South China Sea, Celebes Sea Eurasian Plate Philippine Sea Plate

Andaman and Nicobar Islands India Northern Java Trench Andaman Sea Eurasian Plate Indo-Australian Plate

Izu Islands and Bonin Islands (Ogasawara Islands) Japan Izu-Ogasawara Trench Philippine Sea Plate Pacific Plate

 Mariana Islands United States Mariana Trench Philippine Sea Plate Pacific Plate

Bismarck Archipelago Papua New Guinea New Britain Trench Pacific Plate Australian Plate

Solomon Islands (archipelago) Solomon Islands San Cristobal Trench Pacific Plate Australian Plate


New Hebrides Vanuatu New Hebrides Trench Pacific Plate Australian Plate

 Tonga islands Tonga Tonga Trench Australian Plate Pacific Plate

Antilles Puerto Rico Trench Caribbean Sea Caribbean Plate North American Plate, South American Plate

South Sandwich Islands United Kingdom South Sandwich Trench Scotia Sea Scotia Plate South American Plate

 Egean, or Hellenic arc Greece Eastern Mediterranean Trench Aegean Sea Aegean Sea Plate or Hellenic Plate African Plate