South Sandwich Plate

South Sandwich Plate
Type	Minor
Approx. Area	170,000 km2[1]
Movement1	east
Speed1	47mm/year
Features	South Sandwich Islands, Southern Ocean
1Relative to the African Plate

Map of South Sandwich Plate (SAN) shows its position between the Scotia Plate (SCO), South American Plate (SAM) and the Antarctic Plate (ANT). There are also visible The East Scotia Ridge (ESR), South Sandwich Islands (SSI) and the South Sandwich Trench (SST).

The South Sandwich Plate or Sandwich Plate is a minor tectonic plate bounded by the subducting South American Plate to the east, the Antarctic Plate to the south and the Scotia Plate to the west.

The South Sandwich Islands are located on this small plate.

References

• Map of tectonic relations at "South Sandwich Islands, southern Atlantic Ocean"
• Kurt Stüwe: Geodynamics of the Lithosphere: An Introduction Springer; 2nd edition (2007) p390 ISBN 978-3-540-71236-7

Tectonic plates
Major	African Indo-Australian Plate Antarctic Eurasian North American Pacific South American
Minor	Arabian Caribbean Cocos Juan de Fuca Nazca Philippine Scotia
Other	Adriatic Aegean Sea Amurian Anatolian Australian Balmoral Reef Banda Sea Bird's Head Burma Capricorn Caroline Conway Reef Easter Explorer Falklands Futuna Galapagos Gonâve Gorda Greenland Halmahera Iberian Indian Iranian Juan Fernández Kerguelen Kermadec Kula Madagascar Manus Maoke Mariana Molucca Sea New Hebrides Niuafo’ou North Andes North Bismarck North Galapagos Nubian Okhotsk Okinawa Panama Pelso Philippine Mobile Belt Rivera Sangihe Seychelles Shetland Solomon Sea Somali South Bismarck South Sandwich Sunda Timor Tisza Tonga Woodlark Yangtze
Historical	Baltic Bellingshausen Charcot Cimmeria Farallon Insular Intermontane Izanagi Lhasa Malvinas Moa Phoenix
List of tectonic plates