The meridian 10° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Ireland, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 10th meridian west forms a great circle with the 170th meridian east.
Between 1939 and 1945 the meridian defined the western limit of
New Swabia, Nazi Germany's Antarctic territorial claim.
Starting at the North
Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 10th meridian west passes
through:
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