The meridian 140° 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 140th meridian east forms a great circle with the 40th meridian west.
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 140th meridian east passes through:
Co-ordinates | Country, territory or sea | Notes |
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90°0′N 140°0′E / 90.000°N 140.000°E | Arctic Ocean | |
75°57′N 140°0′E / 75.950°N 140.000°E | Russia | Sakha Republic — Kotelny Island, New Siberian Islands |
74°54′N 140°0′E / 74.900°N 140.000°E | Laptev Sea | |
73°26′N 140°0′E / 73.433°N 140.000°E | Russia | Sakha Republic — Great Lyakhovsky Island, New Siberian Islands |
73°20′N 140°0′E / 73.333°N 140.000°E | Laptev Sea | |
72°29′N 140°0′E / 72.483°N 140.000°E | Russia | Sakha Republic Khabarovsk Krai — from 61°58′N 140°0′E / 61.967°N 140.000°E |
57°42′N 140°0′E / 57.700°N 140.000°E | Sea of Okhotsk | |
54°6′N 140°0′E / 54.100°N 140.000°E | Russia | Khabarovsk Krai |
48°20′N 140°0′E / 48.333°N 140.000°E | Sea of Japan | |
42°41′N 140°0′E / 42.683°N 140.000°E | Japan | Island of Hokkaidō — Hokkaidō Prefecture |
42°7′N 140°0′E / 42.117°N 140.000°E | Sea of Japan | |
41°38′N 140°0′E / 41.633°N 140.000°E | Japan | Island of Hokkaidō — Hokkaidō Prefecture |
41°32′N 140°0′E / 41.533°N 140.000°E | Sea of Japan | |
40°44′N 140°0′E / 40.733°N 140.000°E | Japan | Island of Honshū — Aomori Prefecture — Akita Prefecture — from 40°25′N 140°0′E / 40.417°N 140.000°E |
39°51′N 140°0′E / 39.850°N 140.000°E | Sea of Japan | |
39°20′N 140°0′E / 39.333°N 140.000°E | Japan | Island of Honshū — Akita Prefecture — Yamagata Prefecture — from 39°6′N 140°0′E / 39.100°N 140.000°E — Fukushima Prefecture — from 37°45′N 140°0′E / 37.750°N 140.000°E — Tochigi Prefecture — from 37°8′N 140°0′E / 37.133°N 140.000°E — Ibaraki Prefecture — from 36°22′N 140°0′E / 36.367°N 140.000°E — Chiba Prefecture — from 35°54′N 140°0′E / 35.900°N 140.000°E |
35°39′N 140°0′E / 35.650°N 140.000°E | Tokyo Bay | |
35°28′N 140°0′E / 35.467°N 140.000°E | Japan | Island of Honshū — Chiba Prefecture (Bōsō Peninsula) |
35°1′N 140°0′E / 35.017°N 140.000°E | Pacific Ocean | Passing just east of the island of Hachijōjima, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan (at 33°5′N 139°52′E / 33.083°N 139.867°E) Passing just east of the island of Aogashima, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan (at 32°27′N 139°47′E / 32.450°N 139.783°E) Passing through the Bayonnaise Rocks, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan (at 31°55′N 139°0′E / 31.917°N 139.000°E) Passing just west of Smith Island, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan (at 31°26′N 140°2′E / 31.433°N 140.033°E) Passing just west of Tori Shima, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan (at 30°29′N 140°18′E / 30.483°N 140.300°E) Passing just east of Ulithi Atoll, Federated States of Micronesia (at 9°55′N 139°34′E / 9.917°N 139.567°E) |
2°21′S 140°0′E / 2.350°S 140.000°E | Indonesia Papua New Guinea | Forms the northern half of the Indonesia–Papua New Guinea border on the island of New Guinea |
8°14′S 140°0′E / 8.233°S 140.000°E | Arafura Sea | |
11°22′S 140°0′E / 11.367°S 140.000°E | Gulf of Carpentaria | |
17°43′S 140°0′E / 17.717°S 140.000°E | Australia | Queensland South Australia — from 26°0′S 140°0′E / 26.000°S 140.000°E |
37°29′S 140°0′E / 37.483°S 140.000°E | Indian Ocean | Australian authorities consider this to be part of the Southern Ocean[1][2] |
60°0′S 140°0′E / 60.000°S 140.000°E | Southern Ocean | |
66°42′S 140°0′E / 66.700°S 140.000°E | Antarctica | Adélie Land, claimed by France |