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78th meridian west

Line of longitude

Line of longitude

The meridian 78° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, Panama, South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

The 78th meridian west forms a great circle with the 102nd meridian east.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 78th meridian west passes through:

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Nunavut — Ellesmere Island
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Nunavut — Ellesmere Island
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Nunavut — Bylot Island
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Nunavut — Baffin Island
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Nunavut — Koch Island
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Nunavut — Foxe Peninsula, Baffin Island
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Nunavut — unnamed island just west of Mill Island
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Nunavut — Nottingham Island
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Nunavut — Digges Islands
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Quebec — Ungava Peninsula
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Quebec — Ungava Peninsula
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| ! scope="row" | | Quebec — Ungava Peninsula Nunavut — from , Frazier Island |-valign="top" ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Hudson Bay |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | Quebec Ontario — from |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Lake Ontario |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | New York Pennsylvania — from Maryland — from West Virginia — from Virginia — from North Carolina — from (passing just west of Wilmington at 34°14'N) |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Atlantic Ocean |- | ! scope="row" | | Island of Grand Bahama |-valign="top" ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Atlantic Ocean |- | ! scope="row" |

Island of Andros
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Cayo Romano and the mainland
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| ! scope="row" | | |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Caribbean Sea |- | ! scope="row" | | |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean |- | ! scope="row" | | |- | ! scope="row" | | |- | ! scope="row" | | |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Southern Ocean |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | Antarctica

Territory claimed by (Antártica Chilena Province) and by the (British Antarctic Territory)
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References

References

  1. "What is longitude?".
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