140th meridian west

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Template:Short description Template:Location map-line Template:Side box The meridian 140° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude[1] 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 line is the divider in the area of warning responsibility between the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center in the north Pacific Ocean.[2]

The 140th meridian west forms a great circle with the 40th meridian east.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 140th meridian west passes through:

Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Arctic Ocean
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Beaufort Sea
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Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Script error: No such module "flag". Alaska
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Pacific Ocean Yakutat Bay
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Script error: No such module "flag". Island of Nuku Hiva
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Pacific Ocean Passing just east of Ua Pou island, Script error: No such module "flag". (at Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)
Passing just east of Fakahina atoll, Script error: No such module "flag". (at Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Southern Ocean
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Antarctica Unclaimed territory

See also

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References

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