55th meridian east

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Line across the Earth
55°
55th meridian east

The meridian 55° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

The 55th meridian east forms a great circle with the 125th meridian west.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 55th 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.  Russia Salisbury Island and Luigi Island, Franz Josef Land
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Barents Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia Islands in Franz Josef Land
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Barents Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia Severny Island and Yuzhny Island, Novaya Zemlya
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Barents Sea Pechora Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia A small island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Barents Sea Pechora Bay
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Kazakhstan
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Turkmenistan
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Iran
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Persian Gulf Passing just west of the island of Abu Musa,  Iran (claimed by  United Arab Emirates)
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  United Arab Emirates
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Saudi Arabia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Oman
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Indian Ocean Passing just west of Silhouette Island,  Seychelles
Passing just west of the island of Réunion,  France
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 Australian Antarctic Territory, claimed by  Australia

See also

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