Kermadec or de Kermadec may refer to:

Geography

Kermadec Islands The Kermadec Islands ( mi, Rangitāhua) are a subtropical island arc in the South Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand's North Island, and a similar distance southwest of Tonga. The islands are part of New Zealand. They are in total ...

, a subtropical island arc in the South Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand *

Kermadec Plate The Kermadec Plate is a very long and narrow tectonic plate located west of the Kermadec Trench in the south Pacific Ocean. Also included on this tectonic plate is a small portion of the North Island of New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands. It is ...

, a long narrow tectonic plate located west of the Kermadec Trench *

Kermadec Trench The Kermadec Trench is a linear ocean trench in the south Pacific Ocean. It stretches about from the Louisville Seamount Chain in the north (26°S) to the Hikurangi Plateau in the south (37°S), north-east of New Zealand's North Island. Toget ...

, one of Earth's deepest oceanic trenches, reaching a depth of 10047 m *

Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone The Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone is a convergent plate boundary that stretches from the North Island of New Zealand northward. The formation of the Kermadec and Tonga Plates started about 4–5 million years ago. Today, the eastern boundary of ...

, a convergent plate boundary

People

Eugène de Kermadec Eugène de Kermadec (1899 Paris – 1976) was a French painter. Biography Eugène de Kermadec studied at the École des Arts Decoratifs in 1915 and later at the École des Beaux Arts. During this time Paris was the center of the avant-ga ...

(1899–1976), a French painter *

Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec (12 September 1748 – 6 May 1793) was a French Navy officer. He took part in voyages of exploration in the Pacific Ocean under Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, looking for the lost expedition of Jean-François de La Pérous ...

(1748–1792), an 18th-century French navigator * Liliane de Kermadec (born 1928), a French film director and screenwriter

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People

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