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97th meridian east

Line of longitude

Line of longitude

The meridian 97° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

The 97th meridian east forms a great circle with the 83rd meridian west.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 97th meridian east passes through:

:{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" ! scope="col" width="120" | Co-ordinates ! scope="col" | Country, territory or sea ! scope="col" | Notes |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Arctic Ocean |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" |

Krasnoyarsk Krai — Komsomolets Island and October Revolution Island, Severnaya Zemlya
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;"
-valign="top"

| ! scope="row" | | Krasnoyarsk Krai — The Nordenskiöld Archipelago and the mainland Irkutsk Oblast — from Tuva Republic — from |- | ! scope="row" | | |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | Gansu Qinghai — from Tibet — from |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" |

Arunachal Pradesh — partly claimed by

| ! scope="row" | (Burma) | |- | ! scope="row" |

Arunachal Pradesh — for about 19 km

| ! scope="row" | (Burma) | |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Indian Ocean |- | ! scope="row" | | Island of Sumatra |-valign="top" ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Indian Ocean Passing just west of the island of Nias, (at ) Passing just east of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (at ) |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Southern Ocean |- | ! scope="row" | Antarctica

Australian Antarctic Territory, claimed by
}

References

References

  1. "What is longitude?".
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