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.

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162nd meridian west

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 Arctic Ocean
71°40′N 162°0′W Chukchi Sea
70°18′N 162°0′W  United States Alaska
67°2′N 162°0′W Chukchi Sea Hotham Inlet
66°37′N 162°0′W  United States Alaska — Baldwin Peninsula
66°35′N 162°0′W Chukchi Sea Kotzebue Sound
66°3′N 162°0′W  United States Alaska — Seward Peninsula
64°42′N 162°0′W Bering Sea Norton Sound
63°27′N 162°0′W  United States Alaska
59°49′N 162°0′W Bering Sea Kuskokwim Bay
59°14′N 162°0′W  United States Alaska
59°10′N 162°0′W Bering Sea Kuskokwim Bay
58°41′N 162°0′W  United States Alaska — Cape Newenham
58°37′N 162°0′W Bering Sea Bristol Bay
55°48′N 162°0′W  United States Alaska — Alaska Peninsula
55°5′N 162°0′W Pacific Ocean Passing just west of the Iliasik Islands, Alaska,  United States (at 55°4′N 161°58′W)
Passing just west of the island of Nihoa, Hawaii,  United States (at 23°4′N 161°56′W)
Passing just east of Palmyra Atoll,  United States Minor Outlying Islands (at 5°53′N 162°3′W)
60°0′S 162°0′W Southern Ocean
78°5′S 162°0′W Antarctica Ross Dependency, claimed by  New Zealand

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