<P> The north - eastern side is a divergent boundary with the Explorer Plate, the Juan de Fuca Plate and the Gorda Plate forming respectively the Explorer Ridge, the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the Gorda Ridge . In the middle of the eastern side is a transform boundary with the North American Plate along the San Andreas Fault, and a boundary with the Cocos Plate . The south - eastern side is a divergent boundary with the Nazca Plate forming the East Pacific Rise . </P> <P> The southern side is a divergent boundary with the Antarctic Plate forming the Pacific - Antarctic Ridge . </P> <P> The western side, the plate is bounded by the Okhotsk Plate at the Kuril - Kamchatka Trench and the Japan Trench, forms a convergent boundary by subducting under the Philippine Sea Plate creating the Mariana Trench, has a transform boundary with the Caroline Plate, and has a collision boundary with the North Bismarck Plate . </P> <P> In the south - west, the Pacific Plate has a complex but generally convergent boundary with the Indo - Australian Plate, subducting under it north of New Zealand forming the Tonga Trench and the Kermadec Trench . The Alpine Fault marks a transform boundary between the two plates, and further south the Indo - Australian Plate subducts under the Pacific Plate forming the Puysegur Trench . The southern part of Zealandia, which is to the east of this boundary, is the plate's largest block of continental crust . </P>

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