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The meridian 141° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, On the trail of the monuments men: Border crews cut 20-foot swath on Alaska-Yukon line
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The meridian 141° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 141st meridian west forms a great circle
In mathematics, a great circle or orthodrome is the circular intersection of a sphere and a plane passing through the sphere's center point.
Any arc of a great circle is a geodesic of the sphere, so that great circles in spherical geomet ...
with the 39th meridian east
The meridian 39° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 39th meridian east forms a gr ...
.
Most of the border between Alaska, United States
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...
and Yukon, Canada
Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ...
is defined by the meridian, meaning the western extremity of Canada lies on this meridian./ref>
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 141st meridian west passes through: :See also
*140th meridian west
The meridian 140° 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 line is the divider in the area of ...
*142nd meridian west
The meridian 142° 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 142nd meridian west forms a great ...
References
{{geographical coordinates, state=collapsed w141 meridian west Canada–United States border Borders of Alaska Borders of Yukon