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109th meridian west

Line of longitude

Line of longitude

The meridian 109° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

The 109th meridian west forms a great circle with the 71st meridian east.

In the United States, the western boundaries of Colorado and New Mexico and the eastern boundaries of Utah and Arizona lie on the 32nd meridian west from Washington, which is approximately 3 minutes of longitude west of the 109th meridian west of Greenwich, or approximately 2.5 mi.

From pole to pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 109th meridian west passes through:

:{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" ! scope="col" width="130" | Co-ordinates ! scope="col" | Country, territory or sea ! scope="col" | Notes |-valign="top" ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Arctic Ocean Passing just east of Vesey Hamilton Island, Nunavut, Canada (at ) |- | ! scope="row" | Canada

Nunavut — Melville Island
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| ! scope="row" | Canada |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Parry Channel |- | ! scope="row" | Canada

Nunavut — Victoria Island
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;"
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;"
-valign="top"

| ! scope="row" | Canada | Nunavut — Lewes Island, the Stockport Islands and the mainland Northwest Territories — from , passing through the Great Slave Lake Saskatchewan — from , passing through Lake Athabasca |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | United States | Montana Wyoming — from Colorado — from New Mexico — from |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | Mexico | Sonora Sonora / Chihuahua border — from Sonora — from Sinaloa — from , passing through Los Mochis |-valign="top" ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean Passing just east of Easter Island, Chile (at ) |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Southern Ocean |- | ! scope="row" | Antarctica

Unclaimed territory
}

References

References

  1. "What is longitude?".
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