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,^[1] the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

72°

72nd meridian west

The 72nd meridian west forms a great circle with the 108th meridian east.^[1]

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
90°0′N 72°0′W	Arctic Ocean
83°6′N 72°0′W	Canada	Nunavut – Ellesmere Island
79°41′N 72°0′W	Nares Strait
78°33′N 72°0′W	Greenland	Inglefield Land
77°54′N 72°0′W	Baffin Bay
77°26′N 72°0′W	Greenland	Kiatak (Northumberland Island)
77°18′N 72°0′W	Baffin Bay
71°34′N 72°0′W	Canada	Nunavut – Baffin Island, Sillem Island and Baffin Island again
63°23′N 72°0′W	Hudson Strait
61°52′N 72°0′W	Canada	Nunavut – Wales Island
61°51′N 72°0′W	Hudson Strait
61°41′N 72°0′W	Canada	Quebec – passing just west of Sherbrooke
45°0′N 72°0′W	United States	Vermont New Hampshire – from 44°19′N 72°0′W Massachusetts – from 42°43′N 72°0′W Connecticut – from 42°1′N 72°0′W
41.31°N 72.0°W / 41.31; -72.0	Atlantic Ocean	Fishers Island Sound
41°17′N 72°0′W	United States	New York – Fishers Island
41°15′N 72°0′W	Atlantic Ocean	Block Island Sound
41°3′N 72°0′W	United States	New York – Long Island
41°1′N 72°0′W	Atlantic Ocean
21°58′N 72°0′W	Turks and Caicos Islands	Island of North Caicos
21°54′N 72°0′W	Atlantic Ocean
19°42′N 72°0′W	Haiti
18°38′N 72°0′W	Dominican Republic	For about 1 km
18°37′N 72°0′W	Haiti
18°12′N 72°0′W	Caribbean Sea
12°15′N 72°0′W	Colombia
11°35′N 72°0′W	Venezuela	Passing through Lake Maracaibo
7°1′N 72°0′W	Colombia
2°21′S 72°0′W	Peru
4°38′S 72°0′W	Brazil	Amazonas Acre – from 7°46′S 72°0′W
10°0′S 72°0′W	Peru	Passing just west of Cusco at 13°31′S 71°58′W
17°2′S 72°0′W	Pacific Ocean
34°7′S 72°0′W	Chile	For about 6 km
34°11′S 72°0′W	Pacific Ocean
34°22′S 72°0′W	Chile
42°9′S 72°0′W	Argentina
43°2′S 72°0′W	Chile
44°46′S 72°0′W	Argentina	For about 14 km
44°54′S 72°0′W	Chile
47°19′S 72°0′W	Argentina
51°49′S 72°0′W	Chile	For about 12 km
51°56′S 72°0′W	Argentina	For about 3 km
51°58′S 72°0′W	Chile	Mainland, Riesco Island and Brunswick Peninsula (mainland)
53°42′S 72°0′W	Straits of Magellan
53°54′S 72°0′W	Chile	Clarence Island, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego and London Island
54°43′S 72°0′W	Pacific Ocean
60°0′S 72°0′W	Southern Ocean
69°2′S 72°0′W	Antarctica	Alexander Island and mainland – claimed by  Argentina (Argentine Antarctica),  Chile (Antártica Chilena Province) and  United Kingdom (British Antarctic Territory)

See also

• 71st meridian west
• 73rd meridian west