63rd meridian west

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63°
63rd meridian west

The meridian 63° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

The 63rd meridian west forms a great circle with the 117th meridian east.

In the Canadian province of Quebec, the 63rd meridian is used as a time zone boundary, with all land to its west falling within the Eastern Time Zone and all land to its east in the Atlantic Time Zone.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 63rd meridian west passes through:

Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Arctic Ocean
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Lincoln Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Nunavut — Ellesmere Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Nares Strait
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Greenland
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Baffin Bay
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Davis Strait
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Nunavut — Baffin Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Davis Strait
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Nunavut — Muingmak Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Davis Strait
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean Labrador Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Newfoundland and Labrador — Labrador
Quebec — from Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Gulf of Saint Lawrence Jacques Cartier Strait
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Quebec — Anticosti Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Prince Edward Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Gulf of Saint Lawrence Hillsborough Bay
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Prince Edward Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Gulf of Saint Lawrence Northumberland Strait
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Nova Scotia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Anguilla
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Caribbean Sea Passing between Saint Martin (at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.) and Île Tintamarre (at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.),  Saint Martin
Passing just east of  Sint Maarten (at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.)
Passing just west of  Saint Barthélemy (at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.)
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Netherlands Island of Sint Eustatius
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Caribbean Sea Passing just west of the island of Saint Kitts,  Saint Kitts and Nevis (at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.)
Passing just east of the Los Testigos Islands,  Venezuela (at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.)
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Venezuela
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Brazil Roraima
Amazonas — from Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Rondônia — from Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Bolivia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Argentina
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Southern Ocean Passing just west of Smith Island, South Shetland Islands — claimed by  Argentina,  Chile and  United Kingdom (at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.)
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Antarctica Anvers Island — claimed by  Argentina,  Chile and  United Kingdom
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Southern Ocean
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Antarctica Claimed by  Argentina,  Chile and  United Kingdom

See also

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