58th Meridian East
The meridian 58° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 58th meridian east forms a great circle with the 122nd meridian west.
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“to these
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