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12.30° N, 123.00° E · 1,900 km

Deepest point 10,081 m, read from the grid.

The Philippines

Seven thousand islands beside the Philippine Trench.

Bathymetric • Tall sheet

$130Shipping at cost, quoted before you pay
Style: Bathymetric

Piece: The Country

Format: Fine Art Print

Your Pin

Set it in the studio: tap the drawing where you stood and name the place.

Leaves the printer in about two working daysAsk About This Country

Every depth line on the print is read from the grid, and the margin names the grid and the day it was read.

What arrives: the print you set up in the studio, made to order and shipped to your door, or a print-ready file by email the same day.

The Frame
Across1,900 km on the long side of the drawing, measured on the geodesic
Deepest in the drawing10,081 m
Depth gridNOAA NCEI DEM global mosaic, read 19 October 2026
Swept by multibeamNot asked at this width: the grid is NOAA's mosaic alone
Undersea names inside39
Its watersPhilippine Exclusive Economic Zone: 1,964,764 km² published, 1,964,851 km² measured on the drawn zone
The Deepest Point

The deepest cell inside the drawing reads 10,081 m, from the grid named in the margin.

Galathea Depth lies inside the frame: Jamieson & Stewart 2021 publishes it at 10,025 m (read it on their page), and the print sets that figure beside ours.

Every named deep we checked, with the ones we miss.

Named on the Floor
  • Philippine Trench
  • Colasisi Trough
  • Hauili Trough
  • Palawan Trough
  • East Luzon Trough
  • Emden Deep
  • South China Basin
  • Philippine Basin
  • Sulu Basin
  • Qilin Basin
  • Tianqin Basin
  • Apin Basin
  • West Luzon Basin
  • Luzon Plateau
  • Kamantigi Ridge
  • Gaffney Ridge
  • Menghaoran Ridge
  • Hagakhak Ridge
  • Libulan Ridge
  • Aman Sinaya Ridge
  • Mingtiao Ridge
  • Jiangtun Ridge
  • Betis Ridge
  • Pili Ridge

Undersea names: IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, www.gebco.net.

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Made for Your Country

13 of 20 Deeps Within Tolerance

Each named deep's published depth against our grid's reading, with every miss and its reason.

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  • Challenger Deep

    Outside tolerance

    Published
    10,935 m
    Our grid reads
    10,581 m
    Difference
    −354 m
    Tolerance
    328 m

    The grid reads 354 m shallower, past the 328 m tolerance.

    Published by Greenaway et al., Deep-Sea Research Part I 178:103644 (2021), doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103644, NOAA Institutional Repository

  • Horizon Deep

    Within tolerance

    Published
    10,816 m
    Our grid reads
    10,767 m
    Difference
    −49 m
    Tolerance
    324 m

    Published by Bongiovanni, Stewart & Jamieson, Geoscience Data Journal 9:108-123 (2022, online 2021), doi:10.1002/gdj3.122

  • Scholl Deep

    Within tolerance

    Published
    10,011 m
    Our grid reads
    10,102 m
    Difference
    +91 m
    Tolerance
    300 m

    Published by Jamieson, Giles & Stewart, Marine Geophysical Research 45:17 (2024), doi:10.1007/s11001-024-09550-7

  • Galathea Depth

    Within tolerance

    Published
    10,025 m
    Our grid reads
    10,018 m
    Difference
    −7 m
    Tolerance
    301 m

    Published by Jamieson & Stewart, 'Hadal zones of the Northwest Pacific Ocean', Progress in Oceanography 190:102477 (2021), doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102477 (accepted manuscript on NORA; depths from GMRT)

  • Kuril-Kamchatka Trench deepest point

    Within tolerance

    Published
    9,604 m
    Our grid reads
    9,595 m
    Difference
    −9 m
    Tolerance
    288 m

    Published by Dreutter, Steffen, Martínez Arbizu & Brandt, 'Will the top five deepest trenches lose one of their members?', Progress in Oceanography (2020), article 102258

  • Izu-Ogasawara Trench deepest point

    Outside tolerance

    Published
    none
    Our grid reads
    9,842 m

    No settled published figure to set beside ours.

    Published by Jamieson & Stewart, Progress in Oceanography 190:102477 (2021), doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102477 (accepted manuscript; GMRT)

  • Japan Trench deepest point

    Within tolerance

    Published
    8,046 m
    Our grid reads
    8,037 m
    Difference
    −9 m
    Tolerance
    241 m

    Published by Jamieson & Stewart, Progress in Oceanography 190:102477 (2021), doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102477 (accepted manuscript; GMRT)

  • Brownson Deep

    Within tolerance

    Published
    8,378 m
    Our grid reads
    8,516 m
    Difference
    +138 m
    Tolerance
    251 m

    Published by Bongiovanni, Stewart & Jamieson, Geoscience Data Journal 9:108-123 (2022, online 2021), doi:10.1002/gdj3.122

  • Meteor Deep

    Within tolerance

    Published
    8,265 m
    Our grid reads
    8,221 m
    Difference
    −44 m
    Tolerance
    248 m

    Published by Bongiovanni, Stewart & Jamieson, Geoscience Data Journal 9:108-123 (2022, online 2021), doi:10.1002/gdj3.122

  • Atacama Deep

    Within tolerance

    Published
    8,087 m
    Our grid reads
    7,988 m
    Difference
    −99 m
    Tolerance
    243 m

    Published by IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, feature 890143 'Atacama Deep' (approved SCUFN-37, discovered 2018)

  • Cayman Trough deepest point

    Outside tolerance

    Published
    7,686 m
    Our grid reads
    6,984 m
    Difference
    −702 m
    Tolerance
    231 m

    Read round the gazetteer's point, with no published position for the deepest sounding: the grid reads 702 m shallower, past the 231 m tolerance.

    Published by Lemenkova, Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska sectio B 75:115-141 (2020), doi:10.17951/b.2020.75.0.115-141

  • Sunda (Java) Trench deepest point

    Within tolerance

    Published
    7,187 m
    Our grid reads
    7,122 m
    Difference
    −65 m
    Tolerance
    216 m

    Published by Bongiovanni, Stewart & Jamieson, Geoscience Data Journal 9:108-123 (2022, online 2021), doi:10.1002/gdj3.122

  • Molloy Deep

    Within tolerance

    Published
    5,551 m
    Our grid reads
    5,561 m
    Difference
    +10 m
    Tolerance
    167 m

    Published by Bongiovanni, Stewart & Jamieson, Geoscience Data Journal 9:108-123 (2022, online 2021), doi:10.1002/gdj3.122

  • Litke Deep

    Outside tolerance

    Published
    4,000 m
    Our grid reads
    not read
    Tolerance
    150 m

    No published position to read the grid round.

    Published by Stewart & Jamieson, Earth-Science Reviews 197:102896 (2019)

  • Calypso Deep

    Within tolerance

    Published
    5,122 m
    Our grid reads
    5,126 m
    Difference
    +4 m
    Tolerance
    154 m

    Published by Hanke et al., 'Marine litter in the deepest site of the Mediterranean Sea', Marine Pollution Bulletin 213:117610 (2025)

  • Monterey Canyon

    Outside tolerance

    Published
    4,000 m
    Our grid reads
    4,389 m
    Difference
    +389 m
    Tolerance
    150 m

    Published as >, a bound rather than a sounding.

    Published by USGS Open-File Report 2016-1072, California State Waters Map Series: Monterey Canyon and vicinity (pamphlet)

  • Nazaré Canyon

    Within tolerance

    Published
    5,000 m
    Our grid reads
    5,100 m
    Difference
    +100 m
    Tolerance
    150 m

    Published by Tyler et al., 'Europe's Grand Canyon: Nazaré Submarine Canyon', Oceanography 22(1) (2009)

  • Kaikoura Canyon

    Outside tolerance

    Published
    none
    Our grid reads
    not read

    No settled published figure to set beside ours.

  • Hikurangi Trough

    Outside tolerance

    Published
    none
    Our grid reads
    3,208 m

    No settled published figure to set beside ours.

  • Ryukyu Trench

    Within tolerance

    Published
    7,447 m
    Our grid reads
    7,449 m
    Difference
    +2 m
    Tolerance
    223 m

    Published by Jamieson & Stewart, Progress in Oceanography 190:102477 (2021), doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102477 (accepted manuscript; GMRT)

We hope The Philippines ends up where you pass it every day.