145th meridian east explained

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.

From Pole to Pole

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
	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

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