98th Meridian West
The meridian 98° 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 98th meridian west forms a great circle with the 82nd meridian east.
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“to these
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