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115th meridian west
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December 2024Line of longitude
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The meridian 115° west 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, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 115th meridian west forms a great circle with the 65th meridian east.December 2024
Between the equator and the 60th parallel south it forms the eastern boundary of the South Pacific Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone and the western boundary of the Latin American Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone.Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zones-Fact-Sheet.pdf live https://web.archive.org/web/20240818161714/https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zones-Fact-Sheet.pdf 2024-08-18 2024-12-01 www.armscontrolcenter.org
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 115th meridian west passes through:
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| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 90 0 N 115 0 W type:waterbody Arctic Ocean
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Arctic Ocean
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" |
|-
| 77 58 N 115 0 W type:country Canada
! scope="row" |
| Northwest Territories — Brock Island
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| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 77 55 N 115 0 W type:waterbody Ballantyne Strait
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Ballantyne Strait
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" |
|-valign="top"
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 77 19 N 115 0 W type:waterbody
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Unnamed waterbody
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Passing just west of Emerald Isle, Northwest Territories, at 76 47 N 114 50 W type:isle Emerald Island
|-
| 76 28 N 115 0 W type:country Canada
! scope="row" |
| Northwest Territories — Melville Island
|-
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 74 58 N 115 0 W type:waterbody M'Clure Strait
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | M'Clure Strait
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" |
|-
| 73 18 N 115 0 W type:country Canada
! scope="row" |
| Northwest Territories — Victoria Island
|-
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 70 36 N 115 0 W type:waterbody Prince Albert Sound
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Prince Albert Sound
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" |
|-valign="top"
| 70 17 N 115 0 W type:country Canada
! scope="row" |
| Northwest Territories — Victoria Island Nunavut — from 70 0 N 115 0 W type:adm1st Nunavut on Victoria Island
|-valign="top"
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 68 52 N 115 0 W type:waterbody Dolphin and Union Strait
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Dolphin and Union Strait
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" |
|-
| 70 17 N 115 0 W type:country Canada
! scope="row" |
| Nunavut - mainland
|-
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 68 10 N 115 0 W type:waterbody Coronation Gulf
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Coronation Gulf
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" |
|-valign="top"
| 67 48 N 115 0 W type:country Canada
! scope="row" |
| Nunavut Northwest Territories — from 66 16 N 115 0 W type:adm1st Nunavut, passing through the Great Slave Lake Alberta — from 60 0 N 115 0 W type:adm1st Alberta British Columbia — from 50 34 N 115 0 W type:adm1st British Columbia
|-valign="top"
| 49 0 N 115 0 W type:country United States
! scope="row" |
| Montana Idaho — from 46 58 N 115 0 W type:adm1st Idaho Nevada — from 42 0 N 115 0 W type:adm1st Nevada, passing just east of Las Vegas at 36 10 N 115 8 W California — from 35 17 N 115 0 W type:adm1st California
|-valign="top"
| 32 42 N 115 0 W type:country Mexico
! scope="row" |
| Baja California Sonora — for about 12 km from 32 18 N 115 0 W type:adm1st Sonara Baja California — from 32 11 N 115 0 W type:adm1st Baja California Sonora — for about 2 km from 31 59 N 115 0 W type:adm1st Sonara Baja California — from 31 56 N 115 0 W type:adm1st Baja California
|-
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 29 23 N 115 0 W type:waterbody Pacific Ocean
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Sebastián Vizcaíno Bay, passing just east of Cedros Island, at 38 10 N 115 9 W type:isle Cedros Island
|-
| 27 50 N 115 0 W type:country Mexico
! scope="row" |
| Baja California Sur
|-valign="top"
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 27 43 N 115 0 W type:waterbody Pacific Ocean
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Passing just west of Clarion Island, at 18 21 N 114 47 W type:isle Clarion Island
|-
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 60 0 S 115 0 W type:waterbody Southern Ocean
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Southern Ocean
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" |
|-
| 74 2 S 115 0 W type:country Antarctica
! scope="row" | Antarctica
| Unclaimed territory
|-
|}
See also
114th meridian west
116th meridian west
Eutelsat 115 West B
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