The meridian 102° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 102nd meridian east forms a great circle with the 78th meridian west.
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 102nd meridian east passes through:
Co-ordinates | Country, territory or sea | Notes |
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Arctic Ocean | ||
Laptev Sea | ||
Krasnoyarsk Krai — Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya | ||
Kara Sea | ||
Krasnoyarsk Krai Irkutsk Oblast — from Republic of Buryatia — from | ||
Inner Mongolia Gansu — for about 14 km from Inner Mongolia — for about 23 km from Gansu — from Qinghai — from Gansu — from Qinghai — from Gansu — from Sichuan — from Yunnan — from | ||
Gulf of Thailand | ||
Passing just east of border town Rantau Panjang at 6°N Passing just east of Senawang near Seremban at 2°42'N | ||
Strait of Malacca | ||
Islands of Bengkalis and Sumatra | ||
Indian Ocean | Passing just west of Enggano Island, (at) | |
Southern Ocean | ||
Antarctica | Australian Antarctic Territory, claimed by | |
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