63rd meridian west

63rd meridian west
The meridian 63° 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 63rd meridian west forms a great circle with the 117th meridian east.
In the Canadian province of Quebec, the 63rd meridian is used as a time zone boundary, with all land to its west falling within the Eastern Time Zone and all land to its east in the Atlantic Time Zone (never used DST).
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 63rd meridian west passes through:
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Arctic Ocean
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Lincoln Sea
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| Nunavut — Ellesmere Island
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Nares Strait
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|Daugaard-Jensen Land
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Baffin Bay
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Davis Strait
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| Nunavut — Baffin Island
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Davis Strait
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| Nunavut — Muingmak Island
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Davis Strait
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Atlantic Ocean
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Labrador Sea
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| Newfoundland and Labrador — Labrador Quebec — from
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Gulf of Saint Lawrence
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Jacques Cartier Strait
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| Quebec — Anticosti Island
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Gulf of Saint Lawrence
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| Prince Edward Island
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Gulf of Saint Lawrence
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Hillsborough Bay
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| Prince Edward Island
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Gulf of Saint Lawrence
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Northumberland Strait
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| Nova Scotia
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Atlantic Ocean
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Caribbean Sea
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Passing between Saint Martin (at ) and Île Tintamarre (at ), Passing just east of (at ) Passing just west of (at )
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| Island of Sint Eustatius
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Caribbean Sea
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Passing just west of the island of Saint Kitts, (at ) Passing just east of the Los Testigos Islands, (at )
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| Roraima Amazonas — from Rondônia — from
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Atlantic Ocean
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Southern Ocean
| style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Passing just west of Smith Island, South Shetland Islands — claimed by , and (at )
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! scope="row" | Antarctica
| Anvers Island — claimed by , and
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! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Southern Ocean
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! scope="row" | Antarctica
| Claimed by , and
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See also
62nd meridian west
64th meridian west
w063 meridian west