The meridian 145° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 145th meridian east forms a great circle with the 35th meridian west.
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 145th meridian east passes through:
Co-ordinates | Country, territory or sea | Notes |
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Arctic Ocean | ||
Sakha Republic — Kotelny Island, New Siberian Islands | ||
East Siberian Sea | ||
Sakha Republic Magadan Oblast — from Khabarovsk Krai — from | ||
Sea of Okhotsk | Passing just east of the island of Sakhalin, Sakhalin Oblast, (at) | |
Hokkaidō Prefecture — island of Hokkaidō | ||
Pacific Ocean | Passing just east of Farallon de Pajaros island, (at) Passing just west of Rota island, (at) Passing just east of (at) Passing just west of the Hermit Islands, (at) and into the Bismarck Sea | |
Island of Manam | ||
Pacific Ocean | Bismarck Sea | |
Coral Sea | Passing just east of Howick Island, Queensland, (at) | |
Queensland New South Wales — from Victoria — from, passing through Melbourne (at) | ||
Port Phillip Bay | ||
Victoria — Mornington Peninsula | ||
Bass Strait | Passing just east of Three Hummock Island, Tasmania, (at) | |
Tasmania — Robbins Island and the Tasmanian mainland | ||
Indian Ocean | Australian authorities consider this to be part of the Southern Ocean[1] [2] | |
Southern Ocean | ||
Antarctica | Australian Antarctic Territory, claimed by | |