The meridian 62° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 62nd meridian west forms a great circle with the 118th meridian east.
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 62nd meridian west passes through:
Co-ordinates | Country, territory or sea | Notes |
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90°0′N 62°0′W / 90.000°N 62.000°W | Arctic Ocean | |
83°24′N 62°0′W / 83.400°N 62.000°W | Lincoln Sea | |
82°30′N 62°0′W / 82.500°N 62.000°W | Canada | Nunavut — Ellesmere Island |
82°5′N 62°0′W / 82.083°N 62.000°W | Nares Strait | |
81°8′N 62°0′W / 81.133°N 62.000°W | Greenland | Daugaard-Jensen Land |
76°4′N 62°0′W / 76.067°N 62.000°W | Baffin Bay | |
70°0′N 62°0′W / 70.000°N 62.000°W | Davis Strait | |
67°3′N 62°0′W / 67.050°N 62.000°W | Canada | Nunavut — Baffin Island |
66°17′N 62°0′W / 66.283°N 62.000°W | Davis Strait | Exeter Sound |
66°2′N 62°0′W / 66.033°N 62.000°W | Canada | Nunavut — Baffin Island |
66°1′N 62°0′W / 66.017°N 62.000°W | Davis Strait | Passing just east of Angijak Island, Nunavut, Canada (at 65°39′N 62°7′W / 65.650°N 62.117°W) |
60°0′N 62°0′W / 60.000°N 62.000°W | Atlantic Ocean | Labrador Sea |
57°55′N 62°0′W / 57.917°N 62.000°W | Canada | Newfoundland and Labrador — Labrador Quebec — from 52°0′N 62°0′W / 52.000°N 62.000°W |
50°12′N 62°0′W / 50.200°N 62.000°W | Gulf of Saint Lawrence | Jacques Cartier Strait |
49°22′N 62°0′W / 49.367°N 62.000°W | Canada | Quebec — Anticosti Island |
49°4′N 62°0′W / 49.067°N 62.000°W | Gulf of Saint Lawrence | |
47°17′N 62°0′W / 47.283°N 62.000°W | Canada | Quebec — Magdalen Islands |
47°13′N 62°0′W / 47.217°N 62.000°W | Gulf of Saint Lawrence | |
46°28′N 62°0′W / 46.467°N 62.000°W | Canada | Prince Edward Island — easternmost tip |
46°27′N 62°0′W / 46.450°N 62.000°W | Gulf of Saint Lawrence | Northumberland Strait |
45°52′N 62°0′W / 45.867°N 62.000°W | Canada | Nova Scotia |
44°59′N 62°0′W / 44.983°N 62.000°W | Atlantic Ocean | |
17°45′N 62°0′W / 17.750°N 62.000°W | Caribbean Sea | Passing just west of the island of Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda (at 17°42′N 61°53′W / 17.700°N 61.883°W) Passing just west of the island of Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda (at 17°6′N 61°54′W / 17.100°N 61.900°W) Passing just east of the island of Montserrat (at 16°41′N 62°9′W / 16.683°N 62.150°W) Passing just west of the island of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, France (at 16°16′N 61°48′W / 16.267°N 61.800°W) Passing just west of the island of Grenada (at 12°0′N 61°48′W / 12.000°N 61.800°W) |
10°43′N 62°0′W / 10.717°N 62.000°W | Venezuela | Paria Peninsula |
10°39′N 62°0′W / 10.650°N 62.000°W | Gulf of Paria | Passing just west of the island of Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago (at 10°3′N 61°55′W / 10.050°N 61.917°W) |
9°56′N 62°0′W / 9.933°N 62.000°W | Venezuela | |
4°10′N 62°0′W / 4.167°N 62.000°W | Brazil | Roraima Amazonas — from 1°11′S 62°0′W / 1.183°S 62.000°W Rondônia — from 8°48′S 62°0′W / 8.800°S 62.000°W |
13°21′S 62°0′W / 13.350°S 62.000°W | Bolivia | |
20°12′S 62°0′W / 20.200°S 62.000°W | Paraguay | |
23°0′S 62°0′W / 23.000°S 62.000°W | Argentina | Mainland, Isla Bermejo and Isla Trinidad |
39°10′S 62°0′W / 39.167°S 62.000°W | Atlantic Ocean | |
60°0′S 62°0′W / 60.000°S 62.000°W | Southern Ocean | |
63°15′S 62°0′W / 63.250°S 62.000°W | South Shetland Islands | Low Island — claimed by Argentina, Chile and United Kingdom |
63°19′S 62°0′W / 63.317°S 62.000°W | Southern Ocean | |
64°0′S 62°0′W / 64.000°S 62.000°W | Antarctica | Liège Island — claimed by Argentina, Chile and United Kingdom |
64°4′S 62°0′W / 64.067°S 62.000°W | Southern Ocean | |
64°41′S 62°0′W / 64.683°S 62.000°W | Antarctica | Claimed by Argentina, Chile and United Kingdom |