73rd meridian west

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.

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73rd meridian west

The 73rd meridian west forms a great circle with the 107th meridian east.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 73rd meridian west passes through:

Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes
90°0′N 73°0′W Arctic Ocean
83°4′N 73°0′W  Canada Nunavut – Ellesmere Island
79°45′N 73°0′W Nares Strait
78°11′N 73°0′W  Greenland Cape Alexander
78°9′N 73°0′W Baffin Bay Passing just west of Hakluyt Island,  Greenland (at 77°26′N 72°48′W)
Passing through the Carey Islands,  Greenland (at 76°42′N 72°48′W)
71°26′N 73°0′W  Canada Nunavut – Dexterity Island, Adams Island and Baffin Island
68°13′N 73°0′W Foxe Basin
66°43′N 73°0′W  Canada Nunavut – Baffin Island
64°5′N 73°0′W Hudson Strait
62°11′N 73°0′W  Canada Quebec – passing through the Archipelago of Saint-Pierre Lake
45°1′N 73°0′W  United States Vermont
Massachusetts – from 42°44′N 73°0′W
Connecticut – from 42°2′N 73°0′W (passing just west of New Haven at 41°18′N 72°55′W)
41°13′N 73°0′W Long Island Sound
40°58′N 73°0′W  United States New York – Long Island
40°41′N 73°0′W Atlantic Ocean
22°25′N 73°0′W  Bahamas Island of Mayaguana
22°22′N 73°0′W Atlantic Ocean
21°33′N 73°0′W  Bahamas Island of Little Inagua
21°27′N 73°0′W Atlantic Ocean Passing just east of the island of Great Inagua,  Bahamas (at 21°18′N 73°0′W)
Passing just west of the island of Tortuga,  Haiti (at 20°3′N 72°58′W)
19°55′N 73°0′W  Haiti Island of Hispaniola
19°36′N 73°0′W Caribbean Sea Gulf of Gonâve
18°54′N 73°0′W  Haiti Gonâve Island
18°45′N 73°0′W Caribbean Sea Gulf of Gonâve
18°28′N 73°0′W  Haiti Island of Hispaniola – Tiburon Peninsula
18°11′N 73°0′W Caribbean Sea
11°30′N 73°0′W  Colombia
9°46′N 73°0′W  Venezuela
9°17′N 73°0′W  Colombia
2°23′S 73°0′W  Peru
5°44′S 73°0′W  Brazil Amazonas
Acre – from 7°28′S 73°0′W
8°56′S 73°0′W  Peru
9°10′S 73°0′W  Brazil Acre
9°25′S 73°0′W  Peru
16°31′S 73°0′W Pacific Ocean
36°44′S 73°0′W  Chile Passing just east of Concepción
41°30′S 73°0′W Gulf of Ancud
42°15′S 73°0′W Gulf of Corcovado
43°17′S 73°0′W  Chile Mainland, Magdalena Island, and the mainland again
49°1′S 73°0′W  Argentina
50°46′S 73°0′W  Chile Mainland, Riesco Island and Santa Inés Island
54°5′S 73°0′W Pacific Ocean
54°28′S 73°0′W  Chile Noir Island
54°29′S 73°0′W Pacific Ocean
60°0′S 73°0′W Southern Ocean
69°40′S 73°0′W Antarctica Alexander Island and mainland – claimed by  Argentina,  Chile and  United Kingdom
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