73rd meridian west
line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
The meridian 73° 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 73rd meridian west forms a great circle with the 107th meridian east.
“73rd meridian west” enters the record as line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 73rd, meridian and west can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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