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83rd meridian west

The meridian 83° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, Central America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

The 83rd meridian west forms a great circle with the 97th meridian east.
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 83rd meridian west passes through:

Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes
90°0′N 83°0′W / 90°N 83°W / 90; -83 (Arctic Ocean) Arctic Ocean
82°17′N 83°0′W / 82.283°N 83°W / 82.283; -83 (Canada)  Canada Nunavut - Ellesmere Island
76°25′N 83°0′W / 76.417°N 83°W / 76.417; -83 (Jones Sound) Jones Sound
75°45′N 83°0′W / 75.75°N 83°W / 75.75; -83 (Canada)  Canada Nunavut - Devon Island
74°35′N 83°0′W / 74.583°N 83°W / 74.583; -83 (Lancaster Sound) Lancaster Sound
73°40′N 83°0′W / 73.667°N 83°W / 73.667; -83 (Canada)  Canada Nunavut - Baffin Island
69°58′N 83°0′W / 69.967°N 83°W / 69.967; -83 (Fury and Hecla Strait) Fury and Hecla Strait
69°46′N 83°0′W / 69.767°N 83°W / 69.767; -83 (Canada)  Canada Nunavut - Liddon Island, Melville Peninsula (mainland) and Winter Island
66°12′N 83°0′W / 66.2°N 83°W / 66.2; -83 (Foxe Basin) Foxe Basin
64°54′N 83°0′W / 64.9°N 83°W / 64.9; -83 (Canada)  Canada Nunavut - Southampton Island
63°57′N 83°0′W / 63.95°N 83°W / 63.95; -83 (Evans Strait) Evans Strait
62°52′N 83°0′W / 62.867°N 83°W / 62.867; -83 (Canada)  Canada Nunavut - Coats Island
62°13′N 83°0′W / 62.217°N 83°W / 62.217; -83 (Hudson Bay) Hudson Bay
55°16′N 83°0′W / 55.267°N 83°W / 55.267; -83 (Canada)  Canada Nunavut - a small unnamed island
Ontario - mainland and Manitoulin Island
45°49′N 83°0′W / 45.817°N 83°W / 45.817; -83 (Lake Huron) Lake Huron
44°3′N 83°0′W / 44.05°N 83°W / 44.05; -83 (United States)  United States Michigan - passing through Detroit
42°19′N 83°0′W / 42.317°N 83°W / 42.317; -83 (Canada)  Canada Ontario - passing through Windsor
42°1′N 83°0′W / 42.017°N 83°W / 42.017; -83 (Lake Erie) Lake Erie
41°32′N 83°0′W / 41.533°N 83°W / 41.533; -83 (United States)  United States Ohio - passing through Columbus
Kentucky
Virginia
Tennessee
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
29°10′N 83°0′W / 29.167°N 83°W / 29.167; -83 (Gulf of Mexico) Gulf of Mexico Passing just west of the Dry Tortugas islands, Florida,  United States
23°1′N 83°0′W / 23.017°N 83°W / 23.017; -83 (Cuba)  Cuba
22°31′N 83°0′W / 22.517°N 83°W / 22.517; -83 (Caribbean Sea) Caribbean Sea Gulf of Batabanó
21°56′N 83°0′W / 21.933°N 83°W / 21.933; -83 (Cuba)  Cuba Isla de la Juventud
21°28′N 83°0′W / 21.467°N 83°W / 21.467; -83 (Caribbean Sea) Caribbean Sea Passing through the Miskito Cays,  Nicaragua
Passing between the Corn Islands,  Nicaragua
9°55′N 83°0′W / 9.917°N 83°W / 9.917; -83 (Costa Rica)  Costa Rica
8°22′N 83°0′W / 8.367°N 83°W / 8.367; -83 (Panama)  Panama For about 8km
8°17′N 83°0′W / 8.283°N 83°W / 8.283; -83 (Costa Rica)  Costa Rica For about 4km
8°15′N 83°0′W / 8.25°N 83°W / 8.25; -83 (Pacific Ocean) Pacific Ocean
60°0′S 83°0′W / 60°S 83°W / -60; -83 (Southern Ocean) Southern Ocean
73°33′S 83°0′W / 73.55°S 83°W / -73.55; -83 (Antarctica) Antarctica Territory claimed by  Chile

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