16th meridian east

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Line across the Earth
16°
16th meridian east
File:16 meridijan (Zagreb).jpg
Monument marking the meridian in Zagreb, Croatia

The meridian 16° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

The 16th meridian east forms a great circle with the 164th meridian west.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 16th meridian east 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.  Norway Island of Spitsbergen, Svalbard
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean Greenland Sea
Norwegian Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Norway Islands of Andøy and Hinnøya, and the mainland
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Sweden
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Baltic Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Poland
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Czech Republic
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Austria
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Slovenia For about 11 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Austria For about 6 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Slovenia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Croatia Passing through Zagreb, east of the city centre
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Croatia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Mediterranean Sea Adriatic Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Croatia Island of Biševo
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Mediterranean Sea Adriatic Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Italy
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Mediterranean Sea Gulf of Manfredonia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Italy
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Mediterranean Sea Tyrrhenian Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Italy
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Mediterranean Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Libya
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Chad The meridian enters Chad at the country's northernmost point, on the Tropic of Cancer
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Central African Republic
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Cameroon
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Republic of the Congo
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Angola
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Namibia
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
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Antarctica Queen Maud Land, claimed by  Norway

See also