23rd Meridian West
The meridian 23° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 23rd meridian west forms a great circle with the 157th meridian east.
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“to these
Hale dead and deathless do the women of the hill
Love for ever meridian through the courters’ trees
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