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96th meridian west

Line of longitude

Line of longitude

The meridian 96° west of Greenwich is a line of longitudethat extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

The 96th meridian west forms a great circle with the 84th meridian east.

Within the United States, the 96th meridian is often viewed as the eastern boundary of the Great Plains and of a region between the 96th and 100th meridians across which the climate changes significantly, with arid deserts to the west and wetter temperate climates to the east.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 96th meridian west passes through:

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Nunavut — Axel Heiberg Island
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Nunavut — Bjarnason Island and Amund Ringnes Island
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Nunavut — Cornwall Island
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Nunavut — Devon Island
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Nunavut — Little Cornwallis Island and Cornwallis Island
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Passing just east of Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut, (at )
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Nunavut — Boothia Peninsula (mainland)
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Passing just east of the Tennent Islands, Nunavut, (at )
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Nunavut — King William Island
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Nunavut — McCrary Isthmus (mainland)
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Nunavut — Montreal Island
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| ! scope="row" | | Nunavut — mainland Manitoba — from |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | Minnesota Iowa — from Nebraska — from , for about 4 km Iowa — from , for about 4 km Nebraska — from , passing through Omaha (at ) Kansas — from Oklahoma — from , passing through Tulsa (at ) Texas — from |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Gulf of Mexico |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | Veracruz — from Oaxaca — from |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Southern Ocean |- | ! scope="row" | Antarctica

Unclaimed territory
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References

References

  1. "What is longitude?".
  2. (March 2002). ""Rain Follows the Plow" and Dryfarming Doctrine: The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925". The Journal of Economic History.
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