162nd meridian west

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162nd meridian west

The meridian 162° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

The 162nd meridian west forms a great circle with the 18th meridian east.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 162nd meridian west passes through:

Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes
90°0′N 162°0′W / 90.000°N 162.000°W Arctic Ocean
71°40′N 162°0′W / 71.667°N 162.000°W Chukchi Sea
70°18′N 162°0′W / 70.300°N 162.000°W  United States Alaska
67°2′N 162°0′W / 67.033°N 162.000°W Chukchi Sea Hotham Inlet
66°37′N 162°0′W / 66.617°N 162.000°W  United States Alaska — Baldwin Peninsula
66°35′N 162°0′W / 66.583°N 162.000°W Chukchi Sea Kotzebue Sound
66°3′N 162°0′W / 66.050°N 162.000°W  United States Alaska — Seward Peninsula
64°42′N 162°0′W / 64.700°N 162.000°W Bering Sea Norton Sound
63°27′N 162°0′W / 63.450°N 162.000°W  United States Alaska
59°49′N 162°0′W / 59.817°N 162.000°W Bering Sea Kuskokwim Bay
59°14′N 162°0′W / 59.233°N 162.000°W  United States Alaska
59°10′N 162°0′W / 59.167°N 162.000°W Bering Sea Kuskokwim Bay
58°41′N 162°0′W / 58.683°N 162.000°W  United States Alaska — Cape Newenham
58°37′N 162°0′W / 58.617°N 162.000°W Bering Sea Bristol Bay
55°48′N 162°0′W / 55.800°N 162.000°W  United States Alaska — Alaska Peninsula
55°5′N 162°0′W / 55.083°N 162.000°W Pacific Ocean Passing just west of the Iliasik Islands, Alaska,  United States (at 55°4′N 161°58′W / 55.067°N 161.967°W)
Passing just west of the island of Nihoa, Hawaii,  United States (at 23°4′N 161°56′W / 23.067°N 161.933°W)
Passing just east of Palmyra Atoll,  United States Minor Outlying Islands (at 5°53′N 162°3′W / 5.883°N 162.050°W)
60°0′S 162°0′W / 60.000°S 162.000°W Southern Ocean
78°5′S 162°0′W / 78.083°S 162.000°W Antarctica Ross Dependency, claimed by  New Zealand

See also