Mariana Trench

The Mariana Trench is the deepest location on planet Earth , found east of the Mariana Islands and south of Japan in the Pacific Ocean. It lays just beyond the outskirts of Monster Island .

Native Kaiju

• Tardigrande

Relevant History

• Discovery in 1875
• Illegal nuclear waste dumping post-Operation Castle
• Pollution is discovered in 2016
• Kaiju occupation

For a more expansive list, check the relevant article on the real life Mariana Trench.

Ecosystem

It is home to scant deep-sea life, such as sea cucumbers, shrimp, flatfish, monothalamea, and snailfish. The zone has been exposed to outside pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyl, microplastics, and carbon-14 isotopes from nuclear bomb testing. If unchallenged, they could have presented many problems to the ecology of the trench, but the local kaiju eating all the pollutants has kept the location immaculately clean. The temperature of the trench itself is as low as 34-39°F/1-4°C.

Natural Resources

Type

Abyss

Characters in Location

• Tardigrande