72nd meridian west

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Line across the Earth
72°
72nd meridian west

The meridian 72° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

The 72nd meridian west forms a great circle with the 108th meridian east.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 72nd 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.  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.  Greenland Northumberland Island
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.  Canada Nunavut – Baffin Island, Sillem Island and Baffin Island again
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Hudson Strait
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Nunavut – Wales Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Hudson Strait
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Quebec
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  United States Vermont
New Hampshire – from Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Massachusetts – from Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Connecticut – from Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
New York – from Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., Fishers Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean Block Island Sound
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  United States New York – Long Island
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.  Turks and Caicos Islands Island of North Caicos
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.  Haiti
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Dominican Republic For about 1 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Haiti
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Caribbean Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Colombia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Venezuela Passing through Lake Maracaibo
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Colombia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Peru
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Brazil Amazonas
Acre – 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.  Peru
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Pacific Ocean
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Chile For about 6 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Pacific Ocean
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Chile
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.  Chile
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Argentina For about 14 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Chile
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.  Chile For about 12 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Argentina For about 3 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Chile Mainland, Riesco Island and Brunswick Peninsula (mainland)
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Straits of Magellan
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Chile Clarence Island, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego and London Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Pacific 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 Alexander Island and mainland – claimed by  Argentina (Argentine Antarctica),  Chile (Antártica Chilena Province) and  United Kingdom (British Antarctic Territory)

See also

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