157th meridian east

Line of longitude May 2025 157 The meridian 157° east of Greenwich is a line of longitudeWhat is longitude? https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/longitude.html oceanservice.noaa.gov 30 June 2025 en that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. en http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/inverse.pdf Direct and Inverse Solutions of Geodesics on the Ellipsoid with application of nested equation T. Vincenty April 1975 2017-05-17 2013-01-28 https://www.webcitation.org/6DzvSBPa5?url=http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/inverse.pdf en http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-vincenty.html Vincenty formula for distance between two Latitude/Longitude points Movable type scripts 2017-05-17 2013-01-28 https://www.webcitation.org/6DzvScM3g?url=http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-vincenty.html The 157th meridian east forms a great circle with the 23rd meridian west. From Pole to Pole Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 157th meridian east passes through: {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" ! scope="col" width="130" | Co-ordinates ! scope="col" | Country, territory or sea ! scope="col" | Notes |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 90 0 N 157 0 E type:waterbody Arctic Ocean ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Arctic Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Passing just east of Henrietta Island, Sakha Republic, (at 77 6 N 156 43 E type:country Henrietta Island) |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 77 2 N 157 0 E type:waterbody East Siberian Sea ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | East Siberian Sea | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |-valign="top" | 71 5 N 157 0 E type:country Russia ! scope="row" | | Sakha Republic Magadan Oblast — from 66 1 N 157 0 E type:adm1st Magadan Oblast |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 61 35 N 157 0 E type:waterbody Sea of Okhotsk ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Sea of Okhotsk | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Shelikhov Gulf |- | 57 51 N 157 0 E type:country Russia ! scope="row" | | Kamchatka Krai — Kamchatka Peninsula |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 51 5 N 157 0 E type:waterbody Pacific Ocean ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |- | 4 42 S 157 0 E type:country Papua New Guinea ! scope="row" | | Takuu atoll |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 4 48 S 157 0 E type:waterbody Pacific Ocean ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |- | 6 53 S 157 0 E type:country Solomon Islands ! scope="row" | | Choiseul Island |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 7 16 S 157 0 E type:waterbody New Georgia Sound ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | New Georgia Sound | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |- | 7 52 S 157 0 E type:country Solomon Islands ! scope="row" | | Island of Kolombangara |-valign="top" | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 8 6 S 157 0 E type:waterbody Solomon Sea ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Solomon Sea | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Passing just west of Vonavona Island, (at 8 11 N 157 0 E type:country Vonavona Island) |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 11 47 S 157 0 E type:waterbody Coral Sea ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Coral Sea | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 29 57 S 157 0 E type:waterbody Pacific Ocean ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 60 0 S 157 0 E type:waterbody Southern Ocean ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Southern Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |- | 69 12 S 157 0 E type:country Antarctica ! scope="row" | Antarctica | Australian Antarctic Territory, claimed by |- |} See also 156th meridian east 158th meridian east References collapsed e157 meridian east