109th meridian west explained

The meridian 109° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude 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 109th meridian west forms a great circle with the 71st meridian east.

In the United States, the western boundaries of Colorado and New Mexico and the eastern boundaries of Utah and Arizona lie on the 32nd meridian west from Washington, which is approximately 3 minutes of longitude west of the 109th meridian west of Greenwich, or approximately .

From pole to pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 109th meridian west passes through:

Co-ordinatesCountry, territory or seaNotes
Arctic OceanPassing just east of Borden Island, Nunavut, Canada (at)
Passing just east of Vesey Hamilton Island, Nunavut, Canada (at)
CanadaNunavutMelville Island
Sabine Bay
Canada
Parry ChannelViscount Melville Sound
CanadaNunavut — Victoria Island
Dease Strait
Bathurst Inlet
CanadaNunavutLewes Island, the Stockport Islands and the mainland
Northwest Territories — from, passing through the Great Slave Lake
Saskatchewan — from, passing through Lake Athabasca
United StatesMontana
Wyoming — from
Colorado — from
New Mexico — from
MexicoSonora
Sonora / Chihuahua border — from
Sonora — from
Sinaloa — from, passing through Los Mochis
Pacific OceanPassing just east of Clipperton Island (an overseas possession of France, at)
Passing just east of Easter Island, Chile (at)
Southern Ocean
AntarcticaUnclaimed territory

See also